Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:17:45 -0600 From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "GRF ." <nuckingfutsto@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: /var Full ? Message-ID: <200501291817.46679.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY16-F40F2BE416DE33EF8C016A4B37A0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY16-F40F2BE416DE33EF8C016A4B37A0@phx.gbl>
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Hi. I don't know if this is going to be of much use, but I encountered the same problem on 5.3-STABLE only 48 hours after upgrading from 4.10. My problem was that KDE was storing more crap than the law should allow on /var/tmp My solution was to create a symbolic link from /var/tmp to /usr/tmp I see that you only have 1.3 meg in /var/tmp so at best this is only going to help a very little. I also create a symbolic link from /var/db/locate.database to /usr/db/locate.database, as this usually eats up about 5 meg for me. I think that the REAL solution is arrived at during initial install by allocating 2 or 3 times the default partition size for /var. But I don't ever think of that until AFTER I've configured the system :) Finally, my biggest problem is that many users leave email in their inbox at /var/mail. I use openwebmail, so I just set quotas to keep that problem in check, since sendmail won't let me use symbolic links for entries in /var/mail. good luck! lane On Saturday 29 January 2005 16:48, GRF . wrote: > I am running FBSD 5.2.1 and my /var partition is giving me cannot write > to disk errors, disk is full. I cleared out what I could and got it down > to about 98% but I have some strange findings which I will show below. > [/var]> df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 248M 55M 173M 24% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1e 248M 38K 228M 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 70G 53G 11G 83% /usr > /dev/ad0s1d 248M 223M 4.5M 98% /var > > #cd /var > # du -hd1 > 2.0K ./account > 6.0K ./at > 16K ./backups > 4.0K ./crash > 390K ./cron > 5.8M ./db > 2.0K ./empty > 2.0K ./heimdal > 508K ./log > 1.9M ./mail > 4.0K ./msgs > 2.0K ./preserve > 40K ./run > 2.0K ./rwho > 66K ./spool > 1.3M ./tmp > 20K ./yp > 2.0K ./games > 1.0M ./ftp > 394K ./usermin > 2.0K ./.snap > 11M . > > Now how can /var be 11Meg and also fill up 98% or 223 Meg at the same time? > What is eating up my partition space? Uptime is 149 days and I suppose I'm > due for a reboot but I have others with processes going on the box and I > hate to reboot. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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