Is saying it can't fork a new process or is it erroring because the hard drive is full?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu">
mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 10 May 2005, Christopher Smith wrote:
<br><br>> I have a remote server that managed to quickly fill up its system drive<br>> to the point that it can't even run rm (I get an input/output error)<br>><br>> I know I saw something about a work around on this in one of the linux
<br>> magazines... linux-journal or linux-mag.. does anyone recall that? Or<br>> have any other suggestions? If it wasn't in Seattle I'd probably use<br>> knoppix or some live cd to remove it but that isnt' an option sadly.
<br><br>Can you still get process status? If so, try to find the errant process<br>and kill it. I'm assuming something has run amok. That happened to me<br>recently. As soon as I killed the thing, a few dozen gigs appeared.
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