From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 9:24:57 2003 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 AD2B537B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from osm.michaelines.net (osm.michaelines.net [66.238.77.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377AD43F75 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blaise@michaelines.net) Received: by osm.michaelines.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 617B820D15; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:25:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:25:25 -0500 From: Jim Trigg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP! root partition full! Message-ID: <20030130172525.GA94015@scadian.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030130170550.GA726@sentinelchicken.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030130170550.GA726@sentinelchicken.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:05:50PM -0500, Jason Morgan wrote: > I got a strange error from my server this morning - root partition full. > I then looked at my email and had this in my inbox (of course I get > this every day): > > Disk status: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 516062 505036 -30258 106% / > /dev/ad2s1a 516062 117638 357140 25% /rootbackup > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > /dev/vinum/usr 19850256 1112316 17149920 6% /usr > /dev/vinum/var 23579203 9623 21683244 0% /var > /dev/vinum/public 29776085 116 27393883 0% /public > > How do I determine what's going on? This is really strange. First guess is that something large was put into /tmp by a root-owned process. Clean out /tmp and see what df looks like then. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website X HELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message