From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 17:33:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC5910656B6 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:33:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884588FC16 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:33:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan-a.emsphone.com [199.67.51.107]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id mBIHXWE1065560 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:33:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBIHXWOY033430 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:33:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mBIHXVCp033329; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:33:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:33:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Tankko Message-ID: <20081218173330.GE90803@dan.emsphone.com> References: <7fec743f0812180854o2e66bee2m8369eba789290758@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7fec743f0812180854o2e66bee2m8369eba789290758@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:33:32 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp running out of inodes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:33:33 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 18), Tankko said: > For the second time in 2 weeks my server has gone down due to running > out of inodes in /tmp. The first time it did this /tmp was filled > with files, so that made sense. I delete all the files from /tmp and > all was well for a few weeks. Just this morning it did it again > (keep in mind that this sever is currently 700 miles away) and had to > be rebooted. > > But when I looked at /tmp, it was empty except for a couple of files, > but running df shows the follow: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on > /dev/ad4s1a 496M 59M 398M 13% 1535 64255 2% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% 0 0 100% /dev > /dev/ad4s1e 496M 69M 387M 15% 65790 0 100% /tmp > /dev/ad4s1f 221G 5.2G 198G 3% 337742 29596848 1% /usr > /dev/ad4s1d 1.9G 757M 1.0G 42% 1632 280990 1% /var > /dev/md0 19M 12K 18M 0% 9 2805 0% /tmp > /dev/ad5s1c 289G 49G 217G 18% 27779 39115643 0% /bigdrive You seem to have two filesystems mounted on /tmp at the moment, which could be affecting your ability to see files in the one that got overlayed. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com