From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 5:58:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB40637B402 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-30-200.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.30.200]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA00977; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:58:04 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020106075802.01937458@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 07:58:02 -0600 To: Alban Hertroys , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Contradictory information? In-Reply-To: <20020106135406.2CF311E59@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Well, your "db" and "mail" directories are certainly large. I'd look there... At 02:54 PM 1.6.2002 +0100, Alban Hertroys wrote: >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 > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message