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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:18:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>
To:        paul@comcirc.com.au
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with root filesystem becoming full
Message-ID:  <199708070618.XAA17589@foo.primenet.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970806200651.4972A-100000@riker.comcirc.com.au>

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In localhost.freebsd.isp you write:


>I did a 'df -k' and it showed that the / filesystem was full. I decided 
>to reboot the server and after it had booted up, a df showed that about 
>25MB was free. What happened then was very unusual. I did a df every few 
>seconds and slowly the hard disk space in / got less and less until it 
>filled up again. A few minutes later everything returned to normal and I 
>had about 20MB free again.

This sounds like something is filling /tmp .  I do not know what,
however, so you'll have to take a look.


-- 
bryan k ogawa  <bkogawa@primenet.com>   http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/



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