[ping seanh] Re: log in problem

[Ash Wyllie]

NoOp opined

>On 10/05/2010 07:58 AM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 10/05/2010 03:30 AM, Ash Wyllie wrote:
>> ...
>>> 69989356        /var/backup
>>> 19745124        /var/backup/2010-02-01_04.00.04.089058.ashw-laptop.ful
>>> 18457968        /var/backup/2010-01-01_04.00.02.470647.ashw-laptop.ful
>>> 14512312        /var/backup/2009-12-01_04.00.02.836814.ashw-laptop.ful
>>> 12292536        /var/backup/2009-12-01_04.00.02.512045.ashw-laptop.ful
>>> 4981412         /var/backup/2009-09-23_23.15.22.379967.ashw-laptop.ful
>> ...
>> 
>> There's your problem. You've apparently been running sbackup or similar
>> & saving all the backups to your /var/backup folder. Why one would want
>> to "backup" to their own /var is beyond me... Delete those & you should
>> have sufficient disk space to start up again.

>Correction: I just noticed that the above wasn't sufficiently clear;
>delete the the ashw-laptop.ful files:

>19745124        /var/backup/2010-02-01_04.00.04.089058.ashw-laptop.ful
>18457968        /var/backup/2010-01-01_04.00.02.470647.ashw-laptop.ful
>14512312        /var/backup/2009-12-01_04.00.02.836814.ashw-laptop.ful
>12292536        /var/backup/2009-12-01_04.00.02.512045.ashw-laptop.ful
>4981412         /var/backup/2009-09-23_23.15.22.379967.ashw-laptop.ful

>*Do Not* delete /var backup itself, *only* the ashw-laptop.ful files.

That gotit!!

Thank you.


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