Re: [opensuse] Disk Full Error

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:30:32 -0700
Donald D Henson <wepin-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My wife was trying to check her email using Thunderbird 2.0 running
under OpenSuSE 10.3. Thunderbird told her that her mail could not be
written either because the disk was full or she doesn't have write
permissions.

I decided to try the MS method, restart. The restart went as usual
except that GDM refused to load, compaining of insufficient space to
write the authorization file.

I tried logging in using my troubleshooting acct. Same as the above.

Successfully logged in as root. Tried deleting some large rdiff-backup
files. I realized that the rdiff-backup files are on an external drive
which is no longer connected to this computer. Now I'm really confused.

I decided to ask you all or help. On the way out of root, I noticed that
the Computer/Status/Hard Drive indicated that the hard drive has 23 GB free.

As previously mentioned, check to make sure that there is space left
in / and /var.

The mail directory is in /var/spool/mail (and /var/mail which is a
symlink). I found that there are a couple of things that could be
happening. First, in that directory make sure that she has a file for
her user name, and that it is owned by her user id, and its permission
is -rw-------.

Secondly, how is the mail transferred to the MTA. If you are configured
for local mail on port 25, or do you immediately upload it to your ISP.

Third, I don't use Thunderbird, but most mail clients store mail in
~/mail or ~/Mail. I've seen cases where the ownership of these
directories or files within them somehow get chaged permissions. I am
__assuming__ that Thunderbird has a queue mailbox.


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