From: forkosh@panix.com   
      
   John Forkosh  wrote:   
   > Seems to fail trying to re-use the same slacklive usb stick   
   > for several installs. Problem turns out to be that it fills   
   > up the usb stick 100% with messages, then complains about   
   > "memory" and hangs. If the usb stick is /dev/sdX and you   
   > mount /dev/sdX3 /mnt/usb/  then  cd /mnt/usb/persistence/var/log/   
   > then the two files  messages  and  syslog  seem to be the culprits.   
   > What I did was  cat /dev/null > messages  and  cat /dev/null > syslog   
   > but I haven't yet tried to use that stick again for an install.   
   >   
   > Will the above procedure work, and let me reuse the stick for install?   
   > And is there another way around the problem? I was thinking about   
   > rm'ing those two files and just symlinking them to /dev/null.   
   > Will that work "permanently", rather than having to empty them out   
   > each time?   
      
   Solved: turns out /var/log/syslog and messages were filling up with   
   about 100MB/sec of error messages due to a relatively common hardware   
   "glitch", as soon as dhcpcd starts in my case. And I'm assuming it's   
   a relatively common glitch because I was able to google a solution:   
       append="...pci=nommconf..."   
   added to the kernel options. That completely and immediately cleared   
   everything up. No more error messages whatsoever.   
   --   
   John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )   
      
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