smk5@quads.uchicago.edu (stephen mortimer kramarsky) (04/28/91)
Hi again from your friendly neighborhood novice,
I have a tiny little problem I was hoping you could help me with: I
tried to open a file in Edit which obviously was not designed to be so opened.
After a great deal of disk activity during which the "## MB available on hard
disk" in the upper left of my "File Viewer" dropped to NONE! from 21.5 MB, I
managed to regain control.
All the time, the Edit window claimed it was trying to open the file
which was, as you have by now guessed, some sort of binary.
I threw out the file and restarted the machine which brought the "available"
disk space from NONE to 16.1 MB. My question is, where is my other 5.4 megs?
I read somewhere about something called a "core dump," but being a law student,
not a unix jock, I don't know what that is. Could such a thing have happened?
What would it mean? I've looked in the tmp directory for big files and found
none. I've also run fsck but it has no effect (should it?) I'm out of obvious
ideas and those are tho only kind I have.
Please e-mail me any help you can.
Thanks in advance,
Steve "Getting to be a pain in the net" Kramarsky
SMK5@quads.uchichago.edusmk5@quads.uchicago.edu (stephen mortimer kramarsky) (04/29/91)
In article <1991Apr27.230530.26089@midway.uchicago.edu> I write: > I have a tiny little problem I was hoping you could help me with: I >tried to open a file in Edit which obviously was not designed to be so opened. >After a great deal of disk activity during which the "## MB available on hard >disk" in the upper left of my "File Viewer" dropped to NONE! from 21.5 MB, I >managed to regain control. > > [details deleted] > > Please e-mail me any help you can [on what may have happened to my disk > space]. Thanks to everyone who sent me help. I found a 4 meg core file and pared down my swapfile substantially (perhaps too substantially, but that's another post.) I'm now back in the game thanks to all of you. Your servant, Steve Kramarsky.
simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) (04/29/91)
> > [details deleted] > > Please email me any help you can [on what may have happened to my disk > space]. Thanks to everyone who sent me help. I found a 4 meg core file and pared down my swapfile substantially (perhaps too substantially, but that's another post.) I'm now back in the game thanks to all of you. Your servant, Steve Kramarsky. Also try creating a directory called /cores I think that when you get core dumps, they are put in that directory. Seems to work for me. That way you know where to look for core dumps to periodically delete. =============================================================================== Internet: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu Othernet: simmons@hoofers.lake.mendota According to the HitchHikers guide to the galaxy, the one thing we *cannot* afford to have is a sense of perspective. ===============================================================================