From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 14 4:38:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33EF15019 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 04:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10iGI8-0001PK-0A; Fri, 14 May 1999 11:38:12 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id MAA00512; Fri, 14 May 1999 12:37:40 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA24429; Fri, 14 May 1999 12:37:39 +0100 Message-ID: <373C0AB5.70F77A9C@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:36:22 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: brianch@us.ibm.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file system error References: <85256771.003CBE4F.00@D51MTA05.pok.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG brianch@us.ibm.com wrote: > > I am a FreeBSD newbie and I have been using FreeBSD on my home computer since > December 1998. So far, I have only been using FreeBSD to do email with > netscape. Recently I have been getting error messages stating that I could not > write to a file because it was full. This message only occurs when I try to > move an email to a different folder or a similar mail function. Today I could > not even start x-windows with the startx command because of the file system full > error. The exact error message is : "myname /kernel: pid 225 (m4), uid 0 on /: > file system full" Can you help me to get this problem resolved? > > When I do a df command, what is the significance of each of the entries listed > in the output? The first one in the list on my computer is at 104% capacity!! > As the error suggests the root filesystem is full. It could be several things. /tmp could be full of temporary files. Do you login and run netscape as root? If so then your e-mail directory will be /nsmail. To fix it, do ``boot -s'' at the boot prompt (you don't say what version of FreeBSD you're running, the boot prompt is slightly different between 2.2.x and 3.1) then rm(1) everthing in /tmp. Also check for *.core files, and rm them. Use df to check how much free space you've generated. If you are running as root all the time then create yourself a new user, and run netscape as that user instead (non-root users have their home dir in /usr, not /, by default). BTW, the reason that the filesystem can be 104% full is because the system reserves ~10% for itself. Add the figures in the "avail" and "used" columns together for a filesystem and the result will only be ~90% of the "blocks" column. HTH > Thanks, > > Brian > > *********************************** > Brian Jay Christie > characterization/test engineer > (802) 769-7356 > email: brianch@us.ibm.com > *********************************** > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message