Unfortunately, most system maintenance scripts and programs use "rm" and
don't understand how to hunt and check which files can be safely deleted.
And even worse, these scripts are usually in a crontab which means by the
time the administrator walks by the machine, dozens and dozens of these
locked rm's are running, and the system has such a high load average, it
is completely and utterly useless. You also cannot safely shutdown which
leads to even further FS corruption.
This manner of lacking an escape is a Bad Thing(tm) in my opinion.
Especially in the view that we're making linux to be better than That
Other OS(plural).
This is leading off topic now, and needs to make a sharp turn.
I am by no means a guru at this. I do have a trash HD that I am going to
be working on, and I will attempt to figure out what the problem is, and
possibly provide a solution. I welcome most whole-heartedly any helpful
comments, information, and other support in fixing this.
Anyone who can drop off pointers to help me along, please, by all means
do so.
David
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