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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: / mysteriously filesystem filling up
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Date: 29 Mar 90 23:30:36 GMT
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/ comp.sys.next / stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) / Mar 29, 1990 /
> On our NeXT, the root filesystem continually fills up over a period of
> several weeks until it runs out of space and work becomes impossible.
> It's got nothing to do with /tmp filling up.  After a halt and reboot
> (shutdown is not enough) everything is back to normal, i.e. about 
> 150M bytes on / are freed up.

It's probably /private/vm/swapfile growing out of control.

I've had it happen on my system, and I suspect PrintManager was causing the
problem.

Jacob
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