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On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:

> I am getting these errors on my var filesystem but df -h shows  
> there is plenty of space available.
>
> I am running FreeBSD 5.4
>
> muse2# df -h
> Filesystem       Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/amrd0s1a    989M     56M    854M     6%    /
> devfs            1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/amrd0s1e    989M     32M    878M     4%    /tmp
> /dev/amrd0s1f    9.5G    4.2G    4.6G    48%    /usr
> /dev/amrd0s1g    245G    9.4G    216G     4%    /usr/home
> /dev/amrd0s1d    1.9G    526M    1.3G    29%    /var
>
> muse2# tail /var/log/messages
> Apr  3 09:00:44 muse2 kernel: pid 537 (mimedefang), uid 26 inumber  
> 126291 on /var: filesystem full
> Apr  3 09:09:55 muse2 kernel: pid 52000 (httpd), uid 80 inumber  
> 170037 on /var: filesystem full
> Apr  3 09:12:59 muse2 kernel: pid 34758 (mimedefang), uid 26  
> inumber 127701 on /var: filesystem full
>
> I have restarted the mimdefang process but I get the same messages.
>
> What can I do?
> _______________________________________________


Purge some old log files to start with. However according to your df  
above you should have plenty of room.

Cheers,
m