root filesystem full and having trouble clearing it!!!

[Claude Paroz]

Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 à 13:55 +0000, Gavin McCullagh a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> [ I've found a fix, but I'd like to send this anyway, to ask what the
>   correct solution is ]
> 
> We're running Edgy for a number of thin clients (about 20 just now).
> 
> I'm having a nasty problem and I can't spot the reason.  The root
> filesystem is full so users can't login.  However, I can't pinpoint where
> the data is to free it up.
> 
(...)
> 
> There were tonnes of old processes running under the nbdserver user each
> of which looked like:
> 
> nobody    6776  0.0  0.0   1656   468 ?        S    Mar15   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/nbdswapd
> nobody    6779  0.0  0.0   3248   740 ?        S    Mar15   0:00 /bin/nbd-server 0 /tmp/fileHiJv50 
> 

http://www.mail-archive.com/edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00413.html

Never got any answer :-(

Claude