From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 21:30:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1419B16A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:30:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from agibson@confabulator.net) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B67B543D55 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:30:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from agibson@confabulator.net) Received: (qmail 10900 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2005 21:30:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.1.51?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 15 Jun 2005 21:30:15 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 68.78.111.165 Message-ID: <42B09DE9.6000303@confabulator.net> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:30:17 -0500 From: Aaron Gibson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SteveW References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:30:17 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SteveW wrote: > Hi All, > > df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... > > After searching google freebsd.org I am no nearing to figuring this out, > other than this is a "known" problem. Either I or the system managed to > get the root partition back to under 100% but only just... I have looked > for any large files that might be taking up space but have yet to locate > anything over 3meg. > > Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts gratefully received. > > Thanks, > > > Steve > > > > INFO: > FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p10 / 80gig drive > > df was: /dev/ad0s1a 252M 250M -18.5M 108% > > df now: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 252M 230M 1.8M 99% / > /dev/ad0s1g 29G 2.3G 24G 9% /home > /dev/ad0s1f 3.0G 1.7G 1.0G 62% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 3.9G 75M 3.5G 2% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > After the cras dmesg was filled with this: > pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full > pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" The filesystem reserves blocks for the superuser (consult manpage for newfs) -m free-space The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the minimum free space threshold. The default value used is defined by MINFREE from , currently 8%. See tunefs(8) for more details on how to set this option. - --Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCsJ3pm1yLNDpKjl4RAkkYAKCEj6sFAv43mOPOd7sYnHnR2Dc5YACg8vu9 foObxS/qd6RHhTz5IijKyAo= =xZDl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----