From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 24 4: 0:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.i-plus.net (cliff.i-plus.net [209.100.20.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C8F37B5B2 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:00:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from abyss (dhcp-05.dashit.net [209.100.22.254]) by cliff.i-plus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA94554 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:00:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: filesystem full? Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 06:55:18 -0500 Message-ID: <NDBBLGJECLNPOOFNABJCGEAMCAAA.troy@picus.com> 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 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey all, I've seen this come up before, but don't remember seeing an answer. After some 200 days of uptime, one of my boxes decided to play stupid and pretend like the /var filesystem was full. As you can imagine, this screwed up all sorts of things. Not until I did a reboot, did the machine start behaving properly. Now, as you can see with the information below, du doesn't show a difference of the before and after, yet df does. This problem, whatever it is, is a serious threat to FreeBSD's claim of stability. 200 days is a good, long time, and this machine is due for an update anyways, but I would have expected that it could have stays up indefinately. This box has been rock solid until it started loosing it's marbles. -Troy --------------------- # df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1e 19815 19666 -1436 108% /var # du -sx * 1 account 3 at 901 backups 1 blegga 2 crash 79 cron 739 db 65 games 1036 log 0 mail 2 msgs 1 preserve 51 run 4 rwho 363 spool 399 tmp 19 yp # shutdown -r now Shutdown NOW! shutdown: [pid 58494] ... System shutdown time has arrived [a few short minutes later] # df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1e 19815 3319 14911 18% /var # du -sx * 1 account 3 at 901 backups 1 blegga 2 crash 80 cron 739 db 65 games 1051 log 0 mail 2 msgs 1 preserve 48 run 4 rwho 344 spool 399 tmp 19 yp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message