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- From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Turning off SCSI devices and Rel 2.1
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.082649.1131@resonex.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 08:26:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.114709.9162@investor.pgh.pa.us> <1992Jul23.213549.10270@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: Resonex Inc., Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Jul23.213549.10270@midway.uchicago.edu> marianne@stevie.bsd.uchicago.edu (Marianne Guntow) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.114709.9162@investor.pgh.pa.us>
- >rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
- >
- > ... The trouble started when I tried to eject the disk. ...
- >
- >Then next day I found the hard disk was full. ...
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- I bet that it is the "/tmp/console.log" which caused your HD flooding.
- When some repeated error messages are issued (as after not quite clean eject
- of the removable disk) the "console.log" grows to obscene sizes.
- The reboot causes to clean the "/tmp" and you get the space back.
-
- There is no "hiwater" mark for console.log.
- If this file is removed, it is not created again, so a brutal remedy is to
- remove it after login to the system - then you can do your *illegal* operations
- without filling the HD up.
-
- -Z.
-