From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 3 10:58:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA12518 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [158.43.129.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA12511 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:58:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wYxvD-0001vn-00; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:03:03 +0100 Subject: Re: /kernel: file system full To: njensen@habaneros.com (Neil Jensen) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:03:03 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <01BC7009.F63F6E60@jalapeno.habaneros.com> from Neil Jensen at "Jun 3, 97 10:00:46 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Peter Radcliffe Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Neil Jensen probably said: > > > I keep getting the following error messages in my /var/log/messages > > > file: > > > /kernel: pid 3157 (qmail-queue), uid 1011 on /var: file system full > > > A 'df' shows that /var is only 12% full. > > > > But have you used all the inodes ? > > try df -i and look at the inode stats. > Sorry, I should have mentioned the inodes in the first email: > I have only used about 5% of the inodes. i.e.: > /dev/ccd0e 29727 3436 23913 13% 400 7278 5% /var In that case, perhaps you have a process with a file open that has been unlink()ed ? syslog springs to mind, in var ... otherwise, not sure. There are times when I miss the p* process tools from Solaris, is there an implementation of them for FreeBSD anywhere ? Peter. -- pir pir@darkwave.org.uk pir@pir.net pir@shore.net