From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 20:51:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA13227 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA13222 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:51:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-93.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.93]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA00915; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:36:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA08663; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:36:13 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199710010336.WAA08663@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Alex Weeks cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" From: dkelly@HiWAAY.net Subject: Re: file system full In-reply-to: Message from Alex Weeks of "Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:36:16 CDT." <01BCCDC7.5D07A7A0@cutthroat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:36:12 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alex Weeks writes: > > I am getting the following message on my console and in my daily log file. > > pid 988 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full > > but, df returns the following: > > /dev/sd0a 50% > /dev/sd0s1f 11% > /dev/sd1 56% > procfs 100% Where do you have those filesystems mounted? Am guessing sd0a is root, sd0s1f is /usr. Where is /var? You really should have a /var with a comfortable amount of space to handle incoming mail, output print jobs, and other interesting things. Its not too hard to spit out a 20M or 30M Postscript file when printing from Netscape. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.