From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 16:31:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E6B16A41F for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:31:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71CCD43D62 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:31:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i32so352088wra for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:31:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=MvUl62YVJX2o22ArindvBQUS3aQnv3nQuzCWRTSvpCwWfvgLGbjbA7kb8YnsD2Ti4MF4HoIZS2mUJ27wBFNsEicoWknKPC8jUt0hCzZEJ2woDDZtJZ/ILYNR2EX/mgm+nhcZljeHbQjmJ9xpuN7+zLqberkMlMucPzVWmrHEsow= Received: by 10.54.100.2 with SMTP id x2mr4350405wrb; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:31:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 26sm3205169wrl.2005.11.07.08.31.41; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:31:42 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: Bob Johnson Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:23:00 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <1131325173.3160.5.camel@localhost> <200511070717.25113.ringworm01@gmail.com> <54db43990511070819g2d5d5bfchf507626a33c921f2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990511070819g2d5d5bfchf507626a33c921f2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511070823.01175.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions , Dave Webster Subject: Re: filesystem full error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:31:48 -0000 On Monday 07 November 2005 08:19, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 11/7/05, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Monday 07 November 2005 07:03, Micah wrote: > > > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > > On Sunday 06 November 2005 23:27, Dave Webster wrote: > > > >>Tried the link and commented out the line in /etc/fstab, rebooted > > > >> but still get the same problem. > > > > > > > > You still get this? VVVVVVVVV > > > > > > > > /var: write failed, filesystem is full > > > > > > > >>>>>>>mkdir: /var/db/pkg/ORBit-0.5.17_2: No space left on device > > > >>>>>>>pkg_add: can't record package infor > > > >>>>>>> '/var/db/pkg/ORBit-0.5.17_2', you're on your own! > > > > > > I'm not seeing the connection between the /tmp partition and a /var > > > filesytem error. On his system they're different partitions. > > > > > > Micah > > > > your right, don't know what I was thinking. > > It is still entirely reasonable to assume that he is running out of > space on /var because of something using /var/tmp. > > I'd like to see the output of "ls -l /var" and "ls -l /". > > The results of "df" and of "du -d2 /var" with the new configuration > (/var/tmp linked to /usr/tmp) taken while pkg_add is running _before_ > the error message appears would be good, too. > > - Bob I wonder, can he register another, smaller port now? Just how broke is /var/db/pkg ??? -Mike