On 6/22/06, Arun K. Khan knura@yahoo.com wrote:

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 11:10 +0530, TAC Forums wrote:

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Hi ,

We have LTS on a debian 3.1 system Today, the /home partition got full due to some reason. And ever since that happened..every body on the server gor there kmail's crashed.

After we removed unwanted files from /home , and when every one logged back in, there inbox was empty.Every body's..but the rest of the folders were there as it is.

We can see the meessages in the /home/user/Mail/inbox/cur folder, but somehow Kmail is not able to view them..

Can any one help with this?

 1. Strongly suggest to investigate what caused /home to fill up.
    Was it some user or some runaway process etc.?
 2. Can you open the mbox files in a text editor?
 3. Hope you have backups of /home - try restoring the KMail folder
    from backups.

-- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) It's more than magnificent -- it's mediocre. -- Sam Goldwyn

Hello Mr.Khan,

Thank you for replying. Its a system generated file that was occupying 22G of sapace.

The file was .xsessions-error 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.

What i wonder still is , how come the 22G file was there

Regards,

Boskey

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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