From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 10:54:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC4A37B402 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:54:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1LIs4J24558; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 07:54:04 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 07:54:04 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Sean McKay Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: storage problems. Message-ID: <20020222075404.A24145@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020221082318.A5042-100000@fiber.frictious.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020221082318.A5042-100000@fiber.frictious.net>; from seanm@frictious.net on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:34:16AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:34:16AM -0600, Sean McKay wrote: > While attempting to download a file using lynx earlier to /usr/home/seanm > I recieved the following errors: > > 00 on /: file system full > pid 4706 (lynx), uid 1000 on /: file system full (repeats continuosly) > Feb 21 08:12:30 fiber last message repeated 947 times > > Though in the periodic report I get: > > Disk status: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 99183 38555 52694 42% / > /dev/ad0s1f 57064971 2285344 50214430 4% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 19815 2502 15728 14% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > My guess is that lynx is attempting to download the file in /tmp before moving it over the /usr/home/seanm. Try setting the TMPDIR environment variable to some big empty directory that you can write to. If that doesn't work you may have to create a /usr/tmp and link /tmp to it. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message