Tried David's suggestion already, and tried looking
for hidden already and tried fsck'ing.
Has me puzzled too :-(
Mike
mgcon@getnet.com
http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
Phoenix, AZ
USA
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000
plug@arcticmail.com wrote:
>
> It's not a hidden file, is it? Try "ls -la | sort -n +4"
> in the same dir as the runaway procmail file.
>
> When you rebooted, did you do a proper reboot? If you
> just killed the power, fsck'ing the filesystem would
> prolly be a good idea. You could fsck the filesystem
> anyway, and look for the spacewasters to make an
> appearance in the "lost+found" directory.
>
>
> D
>
> * On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:09:15AM -0700, Mike Starke wrote:
> > Yes, I knew rebooting would do that. I just thought I would throw
> > that in for clarity.
> >
> > No, du does not report the correct size. And I thought there may have been
> > anothrer file layting around, but I do not see any indication
> > that it exists.
> >
> >
> > Mike
> > mgcon@getnet.com
> > http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
> > Phoenix, AZ
> > USA
> >
> > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Eric Thelin wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mike Starke wrote:
> > >
> > > > Was a procmail log that went wacky. The system has been rebooted
> > > > a couple times since the incident. No way to restart the same process
> > > > which created the mess.
> > > >
> > > > sync was a no go as well.
> > >
> > > Actually rebooting the server supersedes both previous suggestions.
> > > Does du show the desired size? I would think that it would show you
> > > that there is another large file that is causing the problem. At least
> > > I hope that is the problem since I can't think of anything else short of
> > > giving up and reformatting the drive.
> > >
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > >
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