Subject: Re: none

From: Tammy Lee <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:57:01 -0500 (EST)

dear info center,
	hi. i am having trouble with my account.  it seems that i am
unable to receive new mail becaue i've exceeded my disk file.  what should
i do?  i am not very familiar with this system.  if you could please help.
please respond to [email-masked]. i can get the message from there.
thank you very much.

tammy

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 15 Dec 1997 10:59:25 +0100

>> "TL" == Tammy Lee <[email-masked]> writes:

TL> i am having trouble with my account.  it seems that i am unable to
TL> receive new mail becaue i've exceeded my disk file.  what should i
TL> do?

Delete files you don't need.

TL> i am not very familiar with this system.

Have someone delete files you don't need.

TL> if you could please help.

No. Too dangerous. You *could* do the following, but remember that
Unix is a Real Operating System unlike Windos - rm will remove those
files for good, ok?

Read the following man pages (by saying "man <command>" at the prompt:
     
     quota
     rm
     du
     sort

Then say this:

     du ~/ | sort -n | less

This will tell you the disk usage in your home dir, sort it by size
and pipe the result into a command that will let you scroll up and
down. Find out which stuff you don't need and say:

      rm stuff		   # for files or
      rm -rf ~/stuffdir	   # for entire directories including subdirs

BTW, this is the *w-r-o-n-g  p-l-a-c-e* for your question.

Cheers,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Maybe his humor DLL file got corrupted...  
Or maybe... general humor fault? hmmmm		   (Kenneth R. Kinder)