From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 22 14:20:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E7B16A405 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:20:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560DA43D49 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:20:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from enabled.com (localhost.enabled.com [127.0.0.1]) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3MEK5Ze022568; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) From: "Noah" To: freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:20:05 -0800 Message-Id: <20060422141946.M36266@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <6167434.1145631209604.JavaMail.pibu@Z1DROPOFF> References: <20060420141550.M51182@enabled.com> <6167434.1145631209604.JavaMail.pibu@Z1DROPOFF> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.51 20050228 X-OriginatingIP: 24.5.78.100 (admin2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: file system full help 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: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:20:09 -0000 On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:23:41 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:46:14AM -0800, Noah wrote: > > I sometimes get reports of "file system full" but not accurately because when > > viewing the drive with "df -k" I find there is adequate space on the drive. > > Usually this is casused by log files considered larger than the available > > space on the /var directory. > > That you don't have adequate space for the task at hand. In this case > compressing the log (this means the source needs to be arround wile a > new bzip file is created) and create a new fresh file. > > > I would like to see if this in fact the case. > > > > Can somebody please remind me what commands I can use to troubleshoot this > > current condition? > > Use 'du -s * | sort -n' to find the largest files I was looking for lsof - du only shows written files. > > -- > Alex > > Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. > > Howtos based on my personal use, including information about > setting up a firewall and creating traffic graphs with MRTG > http://alex.kruijff.org/FreeBSD/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"