/var is getting full

[Robert Kiwanuka]

2009/10/10 Amedee Van Gasse (on Ubuntu mailing lists) <
amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>

> On Sat, October 10, 2009 17:33, Rashkae wrote:
> > Alexandra Zaharia wrote:
> >> 2009/10/10 Rashkae
> >>> You're new around here aren't you?
> >>
> >> ???
> >>
> >> Even if I was new – which is not the case – what's it to you?
> >>
> >
> > Your suggestion to reboot 'just in case' would only be appropriate as
> > either parody or troll.  Especially in a cut and dry case like this,
> > where all the used drive space has been identified and there is no
> > mystery missing space caused by deleted but open files.
>
> Rebooting when you can issue the sync command is like killing a fly with a
> thermonuclear device.
>
> Please read
> $ man sync
> $ info coreutils 'sync invocation'
>
>
>
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Just to be sure, before I turned to Ubuntu I was mainly with OpenSuse. Then
I would use "SuSEconfig" to achieve the effect of restarting without
actually restarting. Does "sync" do the same?!

Robert
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