Guest Stephane Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 I have Linux Mandrake 8.2 on a pentium laptop. My machine also has windows 98 which I'm using now to post this message. I'm in the ditch... I got a system crash this morning with Linux when I was developing a php web site using vi. The system didn't do its shutdown sequence. Now when I reboot Linux, the file systems get mounted and are passed fine, but at some point, a deamon called /etc/init.d/partmon gives me a message and switches to the run level 3. I tried to use the recovery floppy but it was corrupted. So now I'm left in the dark... Here is the message I get now when rebooting: Starting partmon Checking if partition have enough free diskspace: Warning free space for </> is only <0> which is inferior to <20000> [FAILED] I trid fsck on / but I get a message saying that running it on a mounted filesystem (/dev/hda3) may cause severe damage. So I tried to unmount /dev/hda3 but could not. It looks like the super block and other blocks are okay, but that there is not enough space available... I'm not an expert though... I don't know if reinstalling my Linux will help. Maybe not. Also will reinstalling my Linux destroy all my installed applications in /usr/local ? I don't know... It looks like the super block and other blocks are okay, but that there is not enough space available... I'm not an expert though... I don't know if reinstalling my Linux will help. Maybe not. Also will reinstalling my Linux destroy all my installed applications in /usr/local ? I don't know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 I once had a very similar problem and it turned out to be that my /var directory was stuffed to the max. ( at the time, it was not its own physical partition. it just used whatever space I had allocated for / ) all i did was delete the logs and what not and it was cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephane Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 I'll try your suggestion. Cheers! I fact yesterday my Linux crashed also but it could start again. It might well be that I must clean up the log... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephane Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 It was some big files, I was at 100% of usage on / Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 No prob! glad it owrked out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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