From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 11:14:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156C016A47E for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:14:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul.murphy@cogeco.ca) Received: from fep3.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A541443D7C for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:13:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul.murphy@cogeco.ca) Received: from mercury.upton.net (d141-24-210.home.cgocable.net [24.141.24.210]) by fep3.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF706DDA; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:13:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (earth.upton.net [192.168.0.3]) by mercury.upton.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D95660D2; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:13:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <45360C5F.4090400@cogeco.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:13:35 -0400 From: Paul Murphy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <45357AF8.1020101@rithy4u.net> <20061018014819.GA72686@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20061018014819.GA72686@gothmog.pc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0642-0, 17/10/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, root@rithy4u.net Subject: Re: File system full X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:14:05 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-10-18 07:53, "Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET" wrote: >> Dear All, >> My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I >> have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files >> inside / but I still get 12 MB of free space with total 495 MB >> worth of that partition. Any ideas? > > First of all, try to track down where all the space has gone, by > using `df' and `du' with the -x option. For example, you can get > a good idea of which places in your root filesystem are the top-10 > users of space with: > > # cd / > # du -xm . | sort -nr | head -10 > > If this doesn't show up a lot of stuff, then there's probably a > rogue process which has opened a file and then removed it, so > it's not directly visible by traversing the tree with `du', but > you can still look for it with: > > # fstat -f / | sort -k +8 > > After you get this sort of information, we can make more informed > suggestions about the best way to move forward :) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I have been trying to track down a similar problem! Using the above method I think I have found 'natd' to be the culprit. Should 'natd' receive a signal when 'alias.log' rolls over? Restarting 'natd' seems to have releases some megabytes. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0642-0, 17/10/2006 Tested on: 18/10/2006 7:13:37 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com