From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 31 16:16:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA15038 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:16:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15033 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:16:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id KAA29709; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:46:08 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971101104608.22644@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:46:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dru Nelson Cc: Chaz Danila , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system full References: <199710311923.MAA00361@wicked.eaznet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Dru Nelson on Fri, Oct 31, 1997 at 12:40:03PM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Oct 31, 1997 at 12:40:03PM -0800, Dru Nelson wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Chaz Danila wrote: > >> I keep getting an error: >> >> /kernel: pid 347 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full >> >> Yetr when I do a df: >> >> /dev/sd0a 80% / >> /dev/sd0s1f 29% /usr >> /dev/sd0s1e 37% /var >> procfs 100% /proc >> >> Why am I getting that message? Any ideas? > > Is this related to ISP? This is more of a newbie sysamdin > question. No, of course it's not an ISP question. People, *please* use the correct lists, or you'll end up annoying the people you rely on for help. Read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. This is becoming more common. The problem is that somebody has sent you an enormous mail message, and it's being copied into /tmp, and there's no space. You can do one of two things: 1. Move /tmp to a larger file system and make it a symlink or a mount point. 2. Pick up ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/mail.local, which uses /var/tmp instead of /tmp. Greg