From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 7 17: 1:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C8937B4EC for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:01:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f1811XW10006; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:01:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:01:33 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Sean Cull Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procfs Message-ID: <20010207170133.A26076@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from code_monk@hotmail.com on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:55:12AM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Sean Cull [010207 16:55] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place or not, or who's going > to end up reading it, but here goes... > > I installed FreeBSD the other day, and accepted the Auto-defaults for > partitions (/usr, /var, etc.) and the installation went fine. I then > proceeded to install a few ports, and those ran fine. But last night I was > downloading something and then I was getting an error saying /proc was full. > As much as I've looked, I can't find out exactly what procfs is... I'm > wondering how I can be out of space when I have 10 gigs free on my drive. Is > it a question of resizing my partition scheme? Or are they called slices in > BSD? > I'm not sure what other information you guys need to answer my question. > Even pointing me to documentation on procfs would help. Does it NEED to be > mounted? If so, why? If not, why not? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. =) procfs has a manpage. it's a view into the currently running programs on the system. there's discussions on what it does in the mailing lists. my guess is that somehow you tried to create a file in it, you shouldn't be able to do that. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message