Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:59:49 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> To: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists_nada@tx.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var full Message-ID: <20080619035949.GB8205@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <EA09BDBE04BB7B81413DB590@Macintosh.local> References: <EA09BDBE04BB7B81413DB590@Macintosh.local>
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Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> wrote: > At 10PM (local time) this evening, a server started reporting that /var was > full. When I ssh'd in to the server to investigate, df said /var was at 2% > full (5.1G) and dh reported the same (5.1G). /var/log/dmesg.today is full > of messages listing multiple entries with the same inode number followed by > one entry listing dd as the culprit. > > +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 7089166 on /var: filesystem full [...] > Was this some sort of temporary glitch? Or something more ominous? Why > would toor be running dd? Is it some sort of file recovery routine > triggered by filesystem full messages? This appears to be mysql-related: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/temporary-files.html Also, what is the output of 'df -i /var'? See recent thread on FreeBSD Forums for context: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/printthread.php?t=58071 -- Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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