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Subject: Re: Low on Space Error message on new install
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Do the following:

cd /var
du |more

And scroll through and find out what is eating up your disk space.

-Joe


On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, John Purser wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix.  I installed it Sunday, got out my "Teach
> Yourself..." book on Unix and started working exercises, no problems.  This
> morning I've got a continuous stream of error messages on the first virtual
> terminal.  There seem to be basically two messages with minor variation that
> repeat over and over.  They are:
> 
> "sendmail[174]: NOQUE: low on space (have 0, STMP-DAEMON needs 101 in
> /var/spool/mqueue"
> 
> and
> 
> "/kernel: pid NNNN (mgetty, uid 0 on /var: file system full"
> NNNN can be replaced by 5488, 5493, 5489 and possibly others
> "last message repeated XXX times"
> XXX varies depending on the value of NNNN above.
> 
> The relevant output of df: (4 gig SCSI disk)
> /dev/da0s2e     99183     99134     -7885     109%     /var
> 
> ps didn't show any surprises.
> 
> Obviously something ate up all the room in /var but I don't have the tools
> yet to track down what's going on.  I don't feel like I've given anyone
> enough to information to help me out but I'm stuck on how to proceed.  Any
> help appreciated.
> 
> I've installed FreeBSD 3.4 off the January 2000 CD's.  I selected the X-User
> Distribution.  I set up one user account and the only installation problem I
> had was configuring Xfree86.  That errored out and I decided to put it off
> until later.  Other than that it was a smooth process.
> 
> I look forward to hearing from the list,
> 
> John Purser
> 
> 
> 
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