Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:13:01 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: David Radovanovic <dave@whatsthebigidea.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up) Message-ID: <20030228211301.GA3173@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <NEBBKHDKBEAKNMFADNDCGEBACDAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net> References: <NEBBKHDKKLPFAIALALCOEEJMDPAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net> <NEBBKHDKBEAKNMFADNDCGEBACDAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net>
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On 2003-02-28 12:06, David Radovanovic <david.radovanovic@verizon.net> wrote: > Hello, > Searched everywhere which lead me to a prior posting about a similar > problem. My file system is filling up again, but in different places. Thank you for looking at the archives first. Honestly, thanks :-) > I initiated a rscync script that runs via cron which coincidently > ran just before my system filling up. I'm sure the answer is obvious > to anyone but myself. Any help would help divert my disaster. > Thanks. My system: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 128990 127118 -8446 107% / > /dev/ad0s1f 257998 118 237242 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1g 9092908 2060994 6304482 25% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 257998 83548 153812 35% /var > /dev/ad2s1a 128990 2 118670 0% /backup > /dev/ad2s1f 257998 2 237358 0% /backuptmp > /dev/ad2s1g 18028798 2083266 14503230 13% /backupusr > /dev/ad2s1e 257998 2 237358 0% /backuptmp > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Note that there is no /backupvar mount point listed above... > The script in question: > > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/local/bin/rsync -avx --delete --stats / /backup/ > /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats --exclude=/run/ /var/ /backupvar/ > /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats /usr/ /backupusr/ The second command will attempt to synchronise /var with /backupvar and effectively create a copy of the entire /var partition in your root filesystem. Since /dev/ad0s1e (your /var partition) is larger than /dev/ad0s1a (the root partition) this will quickly fill the root partition to 100% and start grabbing blocks from the "reserved space" (the default is 8% of the partition). You are running this as root and FreeBSD doesn't block you at 100% but goes on merrily with its job until both the partition and the reserved space are full (100 + 8 = 108%; this is why the usage percentage in / is listed as 107% and not as 100%). > Thanks again for any help. You're welcome :) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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