From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 5:46:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solfertje.student.utwente.nl (wit401310.student.utwente.nl [130.89.236.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576C437B402 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:46:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from solfertje.student.utwente.nl (localhost.student.utwente.nl [127.0.0.1]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF311E59 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:54:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:54:04 +0100 (CET) From: Alban Hertroys Subject: Contradictory information? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20020106135406.2CF311E59@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> 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 For some reason I recently got alert-mails that my /var filesystem was full, while there was only about 15MB of data on it. The filesystem is 60MB, so that should fit quite easily. I'm almost nearing the alert-mail situation again, so I'd appreciate if someone could tell me what is going on here... The computer in distress is a FreeBSD 4.3 (STABLE) box. [I think it will get an upgrade with the release of 4.5] As root I get this output: >pwd /var >du -d 2 -k 145 ./account 1 ./at/jobs 1 ./at/spool 3 ./at 11 ./backups 2 ./crash 2 ./cron/tabs 62 ./cron 5717 ./db/pkg 3 ./db/xdm 2 ./db/xkb 8542 ./db 567 ./log 3331 ./mail 2 ./msgs 1 ./preserve 52 ./run 1 ./rwho 74 ./spool/lock 8 ./spool/lpd 1 ./spool/mqueue 1 ./spool/opielocks 6 ./spool/output 1 ./spool/samba 17 ./spool/postfix 109 ./spool 1 ./tmp/vi.recover 2 ./tmp 20 ./yp 45 ./games/hackdir 3 ./games/larn 15 ./games/phantasia 68 ./games 1 ./ftp 12920 . >df -k|grep /var /dev/ad0s2e 59519 50816 3942 93% /var /dev/ad1s1g 248047 116 228088 0% /mnt/x/var Now let's hope the filesystem doesn't fill up while I'm not available, causing all your useful replies to bounce :/ -- Alban Hertroys http://solfertje.student.utwente.nl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The difference between your legs and your bicycle is that when they are in bad shape it is unwise to give your bicycle more training. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message