From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 11:05:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27710 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 11:05:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27651 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 11:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA00852; Sat, 2 May 1998 11:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:08:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Bill Sandiford cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help - file system full In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 May 1998, Bill Sandiford wrote: > The following messages keep coming up on my console screen and in > /var/log/messages > > May 1 22:20:23 duey /kernel: pid 3823 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full > > This would lead be to believe that my hard drive is full however when I do > a df I get the following ... > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 31775 17621 11612 60% / > /dev/sd1s1e 2202282 380141 1645959 19% /usr > /dev/sd0s1e 1652603 551636 968759 36% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > > That leads me to believe that my harddrive isn't full. Someone is sending you a large email, around 6M or bigger. It's filling / when it tries to write it to /tmp. I link /tmp to /var/tmp Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message