From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 12:45:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32A8106567E for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:45:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F76E8FC20 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:45:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.27]) by QMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id eC5d1a00A0b6N64A1ClFPK; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:45:15 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id eClE1a0022P6wsM8PClEmh; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:45:14 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=_pGxN_IZRBOOKHq26SIA:9 a=bpUKzYp-xhlYMxhU5qAA:7 a=iiwgA5gJ2vC54mAppw7caW2VmkQA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0A1235C19; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:45:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:45:14 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Varshavchick Alexander Message-ID: <20081112124514.GA25369@icarus.home.lan> References: <20081112153331.K65116@comanche.metrocom.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081112153331.K65116@comanche.metrocom.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem 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, 12 Nov 2008 12:45:15 -0000 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:34:11PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time > complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in > question has about 15G free space and more than 10000000 free inodes. > Then all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several > hours later. What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly > apache and sendmail, nothing special. I'm not sure you'll get much support here (or anywhere) for FreeBSD 5.x. I would start by taking the machine down, booting it into single-user, and running fsck -y. background fsck does not catch all errors. Also, how soon do you check the box to see how much space/free inodes it has after receiving a "filesystem full" error? Are we talking "I checked it 4-5 hours later", or "I checked it 30 seconds after"? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |