From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 7 00:16:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA24487 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 00:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.primenet.com (ip220.sjc.primenet.com [206.165.96.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA24479 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 00:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.6/8.6.12) id XAA17589; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708070618.XAA17589@foo.primenet.com> To: paul@comcirc.com.au Subject: Re: Problem with root filesystem becoming full Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.isp References: From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/