From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 1 17: 4:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0910D37B424 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:04:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA83908; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:04:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:04:33 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: leemark@servesyndicate.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system full In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Lee Mark Mercado wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > im getting this error message : > Jun 1 12:18:13 sss /kernel: pid 6907 (mail.local), uid 0 on /var: file > system full > > -- how do i free my filesystem ? i tried deleting some of the log files but > its still giving me the same error. This error is being generated when the system is trying to save mail to a user's local mailbox. This failed attempt may be a cause or a symptom. It may be the case that someone has attempted to send a single large message (possibly even a lame DoS attempt), and that message simply needs to be bounced. If this happens more than once in a blue moon, set a maximum message size of a few MB in your mail server. On the other hand, it's equally likely that there is just a pileup of mail (and possibly logs, databases, etc) in var and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Follow another respondent's suggestion and try to determine where most of the space is being used in /var. Is /var its own partition? If not, and/or if you went with the recommended sizes in the installer help, it may be too small for your purposes. You might do well to allocate a larger /var partition, or at least symlink (parts of var) to larger partitions such as /usr. By example, the /var on my current station is 60% full with a size of 4.2GB. Some servers are _much_ larger. > pls help - thx > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message