From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 29 08:15:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14764 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:15:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop02.globecomm.net (pop02.globecomm.net [206.253.129.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14759 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (r1.bfm.org [208.18.213.97]) by pop02.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id LAA22935 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:14:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19981229101429.008a44c0@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: Stanislav@mail.bfm.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:14:29 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: broken pipe Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have my FreeBSD 2.2.8 installed on a small 80 meg partition at the end of my hard disk, so I only installed the binaries and man pages. Well, last night I decided to try to also install the docs, thinking that if I did not have enough disk space, FreeBSD would just say so. I was installing via ftp, and sure enough, ran out of disk space. The installation aborted, and I got a message saying something about a "broken pipe". I ran the df command and was told my disk was 103% full, and had negative free space (how can that be???). I deleted the contents of the /tmp directory, but df gave me the same response. I deleted several other files, same thing. Having come from a Windows background, I figured I had to reboot. That is when all hell broke out. After rebooting, a number of demons just kept sending messages to my screen that they did not have enough disk space. Because those messages were constantly scrolling my screen, I was at a total loss. I finally figured that while FreeBSD rarely crashes (unlike Windows which does it all the time), when it does crash, it seems like the end of the world. Not knowing what else to do, I ended up reinstalling FreeBSD 2.2.8 from scratch (losing everything I had on the system before, I mean in that 80 meg partition only, not on my Windows partition). Now I have a couple questions for future reference: 1. If this happens again (broken pipe), how do I recover? 2. How do I tell the daemons to quit sending all those messages? I can read them the first time they send them, why do they keep repeating them? 3. Where does a pipe store its temporary data? I assume if I could have just deleted that somehow, I would have been back in business without having to start from scratch again. Adam ===> Whiz Kid Technomagic <=== http://www.whizkidtech.net/ The resource center for webmasters and web users Winner of the Starting Point Hot Site award Winner of the Lighthouse Award Home of the Web Magic Award To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message