root partition full

CJ Tres ctres at grics.net
Tue Dec 20 22:13:10 UTC 2011


On 12/20/2011 01:10 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> Was doodle still running?  If a program has a file open, and you
> delete/move that file to a different partition, Linux will not
> free its disk space until the program that had it open quits.
>
> Stop or restart doodle and you should see the disk space go down (unless
> it creates a new 20G file on startup ;).
>
> Marius Gedminas

I don't think so. Iran it as root to imdex things - took a couple hours 
but I'm pretty sure it wasn't running.
In any case it's not running now and the result is pretty much the same.




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