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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:29:52 -0400
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: running out of inodes
Message-ID:  <20020424052952.GA2259@laptop.lambertfam.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204240517.g3O5HiEo000597@midway.uchicago.edu>
References:  <200204240517.g3O5HiEo000597@midway.uchicago.edu>

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:17:45AM -0500, David Syphers wrote:
> I just booted my system today, and got a series of complaints about no space 
> left on the device of /var, and everything running out of inodes.  The system 
> is an April 22 -stable (cvsup'd about 21:00 UTC).  I couldn't even start X 
> until I killed sshd (starting X and killing sshd were correlated - I claim 
> no causal link since I don't really understand inodes).
> 
> df -i shows:
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree %iused  Mounted 
> /dev/ad0s2e    100750   41922    50768    45%   12793       5  100%   /var
> 
> I don't have anything special in /var, just the default stuff.  I suppose I 

I have some wild guesses for you.

Running Samba? Check for leftover print spool files.

Not running sendmail? or upgraded sendmail possibly incorrectly?  Check 
/var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue.

Also, check /var/tmp for a lot of old temporary lock files and whatnot.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org       http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html
3 years Sr. SysAdmin experience with FreeBSD in small & medium size ISPs.

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