Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:59:23 -0700 From: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: var Filesystem Full Help Message-ID: <461287EB.4040508@calarts.edu> In-Reply-To: <46127E55.2040005@calarts.edu> References: <46127E55.2040005@calarts.edu>
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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? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Purge some old log files to start with. However according to your df > above you should have plenty of room I have deleted logs and lost+found but the same messages still show up. > Check df -i as you may have run out of inodes rather than out of file > space. Looks as though I have plenty of inodes muse2# df -i Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 1012974 57694 874244 6% 1520 139790 1% / devfs 1 1 0 100% 0 0 100% /dev /dev/amrd0s1e 1012974 33192 898746 4% 11141 130169 8% /tmp /dev/amrd0s1f 9938894 4368142 4775642 48% 279371 1015987 22% /usr /dev/amrd0s1g 257098734 9794488 226736348 4% 113153 33118717 0% /usr/home /dev/amrd0s1d 2026030 510498 1353450 27% 866 281756 0% /var muse2# > Have you rebooted since the > problem showed up? I have not rebooted yet can I fun fsck on a live filesystem or do I have to drop into single usermode?
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