[wplug] crashing servers and filesystem errors.

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

AbhiA7 at netscape.net wrote:

>so today i was typing at my terminal and vim wouldnt save. the file server seemed to have frozen. after a reboot and a few fsck's later i had it up. during the fsck process a rather large number of errors were found. i just said yes and let it goto town trying to fix stuff. after a while i got things back up and i noticed that one of the drives (not the one with root or /var but one that contained home directories) was almost full. 
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>after inspecting things a bit i found that one of the users had an ~/.xsessionerrors file that was almost 7 gigs. in size. i tried to delete it but when i did the following started pouring out to the console:
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At the very least, rename the Users currect direcotry and create a New 
one.  Then you can handle maintenance of the disk on your time.

Have you considered the ext3 Fielsystem?

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