Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:50:32 -0400 (EDT) | From | clubneon <> | Subject | Re: X Server Crash |
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That reminds me...
[Prepair for an off-topic flashback]
It must have been the summer of 1994. I had just downloaded and installed Slackware. I didn't know that much about UNIX like OSes. I had an account on the Delphi online service where I learned to use the command line ftp. It didn't know what a symlink really was, I just knew I didn't like them cause Delphi's ftp program would complain if you followed one and then tried to follow a second one from there. So I would just see where the symlink pointed and work my way over there...
...one directory at a time. I couldn't seem to get "cd pub\linux" to work (notice the backslash). So would "cd pub", "cd linux" as two seperate commnds. So symlinks were evil, cause I'd usually have to back track up the tree, "cd ..", "cd ..", "cd ..", ..., and then work to where the link pointed.
So a few years later, I have a fresh new Slackware install. I know Linux uses forward slashes (just like the world wide web). So I'm exploring around my machine. I get to /usr and I see X11, X11R5, and X386, and they all contain the same files. What a waste. The little bit of documentation I've read talks about X11R5, so I figure that'll be the one I keep. So I go into X11 and start deleting stuff. I have cleaned it out completely, so I head over to X386. Hmmm, strange there is nothing in this one. How about X11R5, nothing there either. Oops.
Ah, the good old days. :)
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Okay. Sounds good. The last time I had '/' full, I really cleaned it. > I wondered why it had filled up. I checked /var/log /var/adm, etc. > I couldn't find what had filled it up. Then I thought that one of > my backups may have put a 'tar' file in /dev because of some mispelled > device-name. There I found '/dev/root'. After recursively deleting > this I had lots of space, ...err, buf `df` didn't work anymore ;^) > > I never did find out what had filled it up but it sure was empty after > that....
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