From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 4 08:15:54 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 0C3DA16A420 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 08:15:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dallasstephens@cox.net) Received: from fed1rmmtao04.cox.net (fed1rmmtao04.cox.net [68.230.241.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E7543D4C for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 08:15:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dallasstephens@cox.net) Received: from hpflagsh ([68.99.202.35]) by fed1rmmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060304081231.BQUR17690.fed1rmmtao04.cox.net@hpflagsh> for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 03:12:31 -0500 From: "Dallas Stephens II" To: Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 01:14:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcY/X4p2CD4sELsaTPiokArp2XDOHQ== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Message-Id: <20060304081231.BQUR17690.fed1rmmtao04.cox.net@hpflagsh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: [FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness 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, 04 Mar 2006 08:15:54 -0000 Were you running as root and downloaded a bunch of large files in your /root directory? =) If so you should delete those files and su to your normal user account and cd to your home directory then downloaded those large, needed files. On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Herbert Wolverson wrote: > I have a system running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. It primarily functions as a firewall and > router, and is generally pretty lightly loaded (load averages around 0.2). It > is a low end system (P200, 64mb RAM, 2 gig hard drive), and is generally > stable as a rock. > > The system has drives setup as follows: > / 256M (UFS) > /usr 1.2gb (UFS+Softupdates) > (/var and /tmp are linked onto /usr/var and /usr/tmp respectively) > > This morning I noticed that the "/" partition was at 108% utilization, > and "df -h" looked like this (approximately): > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 252M 256M -8M 108% / > > Oddly, "du -h -d1 -x" showed only a total of 29Mb used on the partition! > The output looked like this: > > su-2.05b# du -h -d1 -x > 68K ./dev > 2.0K ./usr > 2.7M ./stand > 1.3M ./etc > 512B ./proc > 4.0M ./bin > 542K ./boot > 2.0K ./mnt > 6.4M ./modules > 30K ./root > 12M ./sbin > 4.0K ./tmp > 4.0K ./oldvar > 29M . > > When I rebooted the system (without deleting any files), "df -h" showed > the following: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 252M 29M 203M 12% / > > This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the > server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why > this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to avoid ever having to worry > about this again! > > Thanks, > Herbert Wolverson, > The Turner Stephenson Group, Inc. > http://www.tsghelp.com/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org " > * Free space wierdness Herbert Wolverson * Free space wierdness Nathan C. Burnett * Free space wierdness HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER * [FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness Lowell Gilbert * [FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness Jerry McAllister ~Dallas Stephens