From kde-devel  Sat Oct 30 12:18:08 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 12:18:08 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: No space left on CVS server
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 01:46:06PM +0200, Mario Weilguni wrote:
> > Am Sam, 30 Okt 1999 schrieb David Faure:
> > > On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 01:16:00PM +0200, Geert Jansen wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > I get the error message: "No space left on device" when checking out
> > > > kdebase.
> > >
> > > When a message doesn't start with "cvs server:" or something like that,
> > > don't accuse the server :-)
> > > I've checked the server, and it seems ok.
> > > I'm pretty sure it's _your_ partition that is full :)
> >
> > No, I get this too and I have 2 GB free space on /tmp, so this should not be
> > the problem
> >
> Ooops. I was wrong then.
> Ah yes, /tmp was very small. I'm still confused by that thing.
> It's a swap partition, but also /tmp, and its size can change ?
tmpfs is called the file system - it's completly in memory while
the partition is the swap space. But the biggest swap partition
gets filled when a process runs wild. It's killed now.

Greetings, Stephan

> Hmmm..
> Anyway Stephan is currently fixing it, it seems.
> 


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