I had Mandrake Linux 9.0 installed on my notebook in a "Journalized FS" partition for quite a while. One day I believe I closed the lid of my notebook while it was halting and it stopped halting and I think it finally turned off when the batter went dead. After this all of hell broke loose. Partmon said I didn't have any free space which lead to everything that wanted to make a log freezing up. I finally did get X to startup, but eventually I decided to reformat the partition and install Mandrake Linux 9.1. After I did this everything worked fine until partmon complain I had 1000 or so free space. It still booted and everything worked, but everytime I boot that number goes down and I suspect that the partition has the same problem as before.

I remember that when I installed Mandrake 9.0 as a total noob I selected Journalized FS for the file system type. There were also a few other choices. Does anyone know if this has anything to do with any of my problems or if there is a better file system to choose when I reformat my partition? Does anyone know of any other ways to solve this problem?

Thanks a lot!

the journalized FS is just fine. You can see if there's stuff in
/tmp
you can empty it. To be on the safe side, go to single user mode to make sure nothing is running that might need something in /tmp
You can also delete the files in /var/log if they look like they are huge.

Oops...
I was just being stupid. Since Direct X 9.1b keeps crashing on my windows partition (damn microsoft) I got WineX3 and migrate some games over. But (being stupid) I put the same games in a bunch of a different places while trying to get the to work. I also had my whole home directory from my last installation of Mandrake which had the same problem. After I deleted all of these extra files I had tons of free space.
Guess I was just being stupid.
Thanks quatsch!