From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 21:48:22 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 C300916A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:48:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@day-light.com) Received: from joseph.day-light.net (gabriel.day-light.net [209.145.160.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F53943D49 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:48:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@day-light.com) Received: from w1 (unknown [10.1.5.36]) by joseph.day-light.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BC6F4F40B; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:48:21 -0500 (CDT) From: "John Brooks" To: "Aaron Gibson" , "SteveW" Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:48:23 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <42B09DE9.6000303@confabulator.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 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 Reply-To: john@day-light.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:48:22 -0000 check /tmp for files run: # cd / # du -h -d2 | grep M this will show the total amount of disk usage in MB for files in directories 2 deep. you should be able to find the big ones from that (you may have to drill down a tad) -- John Brooks john@day-light.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Aaron Gibson > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:30 PM > To: SteveW > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... > > > -----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----- > _______________________________________________ > 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" >