From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 10: 4:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8C937B406 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6NH0LO28412; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:00:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B5C58F0.D7057572@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:03:44 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk full error??? References: <003e01c11397$00d60520$57ac3c04@vz.dsl.genuity.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason wrote: > When I try to send e-mail I get a disk full error. If I go to my server > and do a df I get the following: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 49583 48145 -2528 106% / > /dev/ad0s1e 38409661 500565 34836324 1% /usr > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Try "du -h /" it will tell you which directories are using how many bytes of space. First off, your / partition is small. I recommend at least 100M for /. Secondly, you have no /var partition, that means that spool files, temp file, etc are probably being written /. This will fill up 50M very quickly. If you don't want to reinstall and repartition your HDD (which is what you really should do here) you can create directories in /usr and symlink them to the required directories in / (since /usr has pleny of free space) The directories that you'll want to do this with are /var and /tmp. Create a /usr/var and /usr/tmp and then create symlinks to /var, /tmp. See the following man page for more information: man link man hier Hope this helps, -Bill -- It may be that true happiness is nothing more than the ability to *always* know the right thing to say at the right time, whereas true misery is the state of perpetually saying to oneself, "What I *should* have said was..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message