From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 17 15:46:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBB8106567B for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:46:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597D18FC18 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:46:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2HFkLGa003383; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:46:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080317104522.02633d68@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:46:07 -0500 To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <878724.45020.qm@web53408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <878724.45020.qm@web53408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080316-0, 03/16/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Urgent: filesystem "full", though space is available X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:46:39 -0000 At 10:34 AM 3/17/2008, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >Hi, Ive got a big problem now on a production server. > >When i do various things, i am getting "write failed, file system full" >messages all over the place. Ive gone through and deleted >things i can, and i should have the space now, but its just >not available: > >$ df -m >Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/da0s1a 2015 1858 -3 100% / >/dev/da0s1e 14061 9002 3933 70% /usr/local >procfs 0 0 0 100% /proc > >I dont know what kind of math lets you do 2015-1858 and gives >you an answer of -3! > >I have softupdates, or whatever, but i dont know how to get >it to release this space. I cant reboot the running server. >I am planning on adding a disc to this system but right now >i need to get this space released ASAP! Can anyone help? > >Thanks, > >Jen If you have deleted files, you probably need to reboot the server. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.