From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 23 22:30:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (eqbsd.lambertfam.org [216.223.196.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE68A37B416 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:29:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (TC4-dial-208-197.oldslip.inch.com [216.223.197.208]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54EA634E91 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:29:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EA5E528B0E; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:29:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:29:52 -0400 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running out of inodes Message-ID: <20020424052952.GA2259@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200204240517.g3O5HiEo000597@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200204240517.g3O5HiEo000597@midway.uchicago.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message