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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: /var/tmp I/O error
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.082828.17649@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Graeme Moffat)
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:28:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.114101.28354@aristo.tau.ac.il>
- Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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- marsh@aristo.tau.ac.il (MARSHALL RAPAPORT) writes:
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- > I get an I/O on /var/tmp when doing vi to a file. THe only way to resume
- >working on /var is to reboot the machine. Everything works fine after
- >rebooting for a random amount of time and then the problem reoccurs. It
- >seemed like a hardware problem - but the IBM technician didn't find anything
- >when running the diagnostics. I have the feeling that this might be in
- >someway a software error. Has anyone ever had this problem occur? Please
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- How much free space is left in /var? From memory, the installation process
- only gives you 4Mb (1 partition) which isn't a lot since several log files
- (including /var/adm/wtmp) build up there.
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- Graeme Moffat g.moffat@aukuni.ac.nz \ Time wastes us all,
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