On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 14:28 +0530, TAC Forums wrote:
Thank you for replying. Its a system generated file that was occupying 22G of sapace.
The file was .xsessions-error
Hope you saved a copy of the file to debug which X application was writing errors in to the file.
For multi-user system, quota is helpful in that it would have limited the user with the X session to his/her quota and not allowed the file to grow to the extent of the /home fs.
Yes, i can open the mbox in a text editor The data is not lost ..i do have it..but Kmail was unable to show these messages. What i did was, moved the Mail files to another dir. Asked the user to open kmail, which created a fresh mail folder and restored the in box back from the old dir. It worked , and people can see there files now.
Good for you. Glad things worked out.
What i wonder still is , how come the 22G file was there
See comment above.
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