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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:25:25 -0500
From:      Jim Trigg <jtrigg@spamcop.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HELP! root partition full!
Message-ID:  <20030130172525.GA94015@scadian.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030130170550.GA726@sentinelchicken.net>
References:  <20030130170550.GA726@sentinelchicken.net>

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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
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