fabian wrote:
>> fabian wrote:
>>
>>> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory
>> Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just
>> a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you
>> can move all other data off of /var and reformat it, and copy the
>> data back.
>>
>> Otherwise perhaps just run rm -rf havp and wait till it finishes,
>> maybe take a few minutes, hours, or days.
>>
>> Do you know what havp is? I'd suggest finding it's configuration
>> and fixing it so it doesn't create so many files.
>>
>> nate
>>
>
> Thanks nate for ur immediate reply
>
> really apprecite
>
> by the way i had tried to rm -rf havp but it was jus takin a real long time
> actually the var partition is on different file system
> but the partition also servers as a data for our ftp server
>
> i will try to move the data
>
> but was jus wondering if somethin easier could be there to solve it
>
> as of now after disabling the cron script the systems being workin fine
> for almost a week with no problems
>
> but have to find the solulation for the problem
Is this really a (normal) side effect of enabling mandatory locks on the
file system as havp claims to require? (And the reason that unix-like
systems rarely use mandatory locks)?
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