From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 1 02:18:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16394 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:18:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (ns.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16375 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:18:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id LAA06678; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:09:35 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id LAA22802; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:02:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA04450; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:55:31 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26273; Thu, 1 Oct 98 10:52:38 +0200 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA198551784; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:49:44 +0200 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 98 10:49:31 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3613E37A.A1134493@swansea.ac.uk> Subject: / partition Mime-Version: 1.0 To: p.roberts-davies@swansea.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've had such problems with a 2.2.5 machine. I did not see any monstrous file, but the / partition was filled : there was a temporary file which had been deleted but not closed by a process (so a reboot was enough to reclaim this space). You can check the open files with 'lsof' (must be in the ports) You can also mount another partition under the /tmp directory (which is usually sitted in the / partition). Anyway, there is no simple way to change the size of a FreeBSD partition (partition Magic won't help ....;-) TfH > I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.7. with Samba, Apache and Appletalk mainly as a > mail server for approx 30 users. > The / partition 31Mb keeps overflowing although there is no significant > increase in disk file storage. > Apart from deleting the occasional xses.errors/root file approx15 Mb, > which doesn't seem to release any of the / file system, the only way of > reclaiming storage at present is a reboot. i.e. / 108% before and / 45% > after. > Can I maybe increase the / partition without a full rebuild? > > -- > ========================================== > Paul R-Davies > Computer support officer > Department of Computer Science > University of Wales Swansea > Singleton Park > Swansea > SA2 8PP > > Telephone: 01792 295651 > Email: p.roberts-davies@swansea.ac.uk > http://cslucifer.swan.ac.uk/~cspaul/ > ========================================== > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message