Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:50:18 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw@unete.cl>, Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System errors Message-ID: <20070516165018.GA7976@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <464A97F2.6000704@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <f80199c40705151115m6b070d06t1a7eed370e039119@mail.gmail.com> <40751.64.117.137.69.1179254999.squirrel@webmail.ifxnw.cl> <20070514031111.GC1304@thought.org> <464A97F2.6000704@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:34:42AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> > I booted into single-user ("press 4") and got rid of tons of junk
> > left in /var/tmp. Then I did a mount -a and and fsck -y.
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> But not in that order. fsck -y *first*, then mount -a, then start
> removing files from /var/tmp.
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Well, my DNS server ran out of space and when I was able to
bring it back up, only / was mounted. I was able to rm things
from /var and /tmp to give me some assurance of a regular boot.
Yes, before I did my first set of file unlinks I did fsck -y /;
it was the only thing mounted.
I'm usually pretty disciplined about / having enough space. Not
this time... .
gary
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