On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 00:10 +0700, Philippe wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 00:06, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:25, Philippe wrote: > > What does df -vh show? > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 36G 11G 24G 30% / > /dev/hda1 99M 7.5M 87M 8% /boot > none 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm > > > What I am guessing is that maybe you filled up one of your file systems > > (or your only file system). At which point you would not be able to > > write anything to disk and mayhem would ensue. > > No my fs are OK. This should be somewhere else. I'd suspect a hardware problem. Do your disks support SMART and are you running smartd? Check out smartctl if not familiar with it. Would make sure everything is backed up and consider that a new hard drive may be in your future.