Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:21:25 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: FreeBSD Administrator <freebsd@workgrp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is the 'procfs' filesystem? Message-ID: <199704040321.TAA08443@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:38:17 PST." <2.2.32.19970404023817.00690ba4@207.207.207.90>
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>Greetings fellow BSDers,
>
>I've inherited a small mail server that has recently started spewing out
>errors about full file systems and temporary write errors that has me
>baffled. The machine is running this version of FreeBSD, on a 486 system
>with a small IDE disk:
>bonkers: /kernel: FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 5 20:22:26 PDT 1995
>
>All seems well, ie, mail flows in and out, but the console keeps displaying
>this message:
>Mar 31 19:22:16 bonkers /kernel: uid 0 on /: file system full
>
>Trying to process the mail queue gives:
>bonkers: {78} sendmail -q
>mail.local: temporary file write error
>
>The only thing I can see is that the "procfs" file system is 100% full.
>Where the heck is this thing defined? Could this be the source of the
>problem? Any suggestions on how to fix this?
No, that's not the problem. procfs will always be "full"...it's not a real
filesystem, just a special way to access process information via the
filesystem hierarchy.
>bonkers: {79} df
>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/wd0a 24815 16201 6628 71% /
...this is the problem. You need more space for /tmp and /var, which is
currently on your root filesystem. Probably the best thing to do would be to
move /var to your /usr filesystem and create a symlink from /var to /usr/var.
In any case, when you build the new system, you should make more space for
"/"...you really want at least 40MB. You should also create a seperate
filesystem for /var (and perhaps another for /tmp, too) that is at least 100MB
or so.
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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