From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 20:56:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0359214EC9 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:56:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA09172; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:56:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904020456.XAA09172@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: curious "file system full" error In-Reply-To: <19990401152600.A9613@milf18.bus.net> from Chuck O'Donnell at "Apr 1, 99 03:26:00 pm" To: cao@bus.net (Chuck O'Donnell) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:56:39 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck O'Donnell wrote, > Given the following file system (on FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE... old I know): > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 59471 12352 42362 23% / > /dev/sd0s1e 4125051 820026 2975021 22% /usr > /dev/sd1s1e 2035244 194146 1678279 10% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > > Does it seem unusual to see kernel errors like this? > > Apr 1 15:08:40 edna /kernel: pid 9250 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full > > I thought that mail.local confined its activities to /var ? From the 'man mail.local' page, FILES /var/tmp/local.XXXXXX temporary files /var/mail/user user's mailbox directory Is /var/tmp symlinked to /tmp? Also, have you tried, % df -i You might have run out of inodes. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message