suddenly filling of hd and no access to x

[Accessys@smart.net]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, NoOp wrote:

> On 09/21/2009 08:07 PM, Accessys at smart.net wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, NoOp wrote:
> >
> > I'm beginning to suspect that the easiest short term cure is to save
> > documents and other data and just reload ubuntu and maybe use gnome
> > for a while.
> >
>
> I wouldn't do that just yet... do you by chance have sbackup installed?
> Sometime back I tried it and it filled up the drive w/file in /var/backup.
>
> What is the result of:
>
> $ df -h
>
> and
>
> $ sudo du /var | sort -nr | head -10


BINGO!!  /var/backup was using almost 700gb of my harddrive. rm a
couple files and could get back into KDE, I thought it was only
supposed to back up new things.  and I thought I had  set it to backup
to a removable hd anyway.

guess I have to somehow get rid  of this or tame it somehow.

thanks guys

Bob


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