root filesystem full and having trouble clearing it!!!

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Claude Paroz wrote:

> > 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 :-(

I have been more lucky.  Oliver's having some trouble mailing the list but
mailed me this off-list.

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hi,
On Fr, 2007-03-16 at 13:55 +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> /tmp was very full so I removed a big load of files called /tmp/fileXXXXX=
XX
> all of which were 32MB in size (I gather they're ndb swap files?).
> However, they've not freed up any space.  I presume this is because some
> process (nbd-server) still has them open?
i have a slight prob mailing the list currently (-users works though)
ths i aswer personally...
ldm cares for removal of the swapfiles if oyu properly shut the clients
down with its shutdown button ;)

there is a spec for a fully automatic swapserver thats still not
implemented (but indeed planned to) which defines a swapserver that
automatically wipes the swapfiles on disconnect of the client. until
thats implemented, you will need to teach your users to not just switch
off the clients :)

ciao
	oli
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It's not very feasible for me to teach everyone to shut down pcs so I guess
I need to figure out a good way to automate killing these things without
destroying the live sessions.

I guess rebooting the server probably achieves this?  That's not my ideal
solution though.

Gavin