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  1. Bug #288570
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 288570

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote : Re: Cups eats all hard drive space and print errors when using photo quality

ls -l /tmp/gs*
-rw------- 1 lp lp 32768 2008-10-24 03:40 /tmp/gs_6PXapd
-rw------- 1 lp lp 4220620800 2008-10-24 03:40 /tmp/gs_ETqX1m

ls -l /tmp/foomatic*
-rw------- 1 lp lp 1115706 2008-10-24 03:39 /tmp/foomatic-5lAEq5

ls -l /var/spool/cups/*
-rw------- 1 root lp 758 2008-10-24 03:34 /var/spool/cups/c00099
-rw------- 1 root lp 758 2008-10-24 03:34 /var/spool/cups/c00100
-rw------- 1 root lp 757 2008-10-24 03:35 /var/spool/cups/c00101
-rw------- 1 root lp 757 2008-10-24 03:35 /var/spool/cups/c00102
-rw------- 1 root lp 894 2008-10-24 03:40 /var/spool/cups/c00103
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 1115669 2008-10-24 03:39 /var/spool/cups/d00103-001

ls -l /var/spool/cups/tmp/*
(this directory does not exist)

I have to mention that sometime, huge cups temporary files are stored in /tmp, and sometime in /var/spool/cups/tmp. This might be caused by me, because I deleted /var/spool/cups/* many times.