From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 24 15:53:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09308 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:53:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09264 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:53:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA17125; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:51:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802242351.PAA17125@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: John Fieber cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: grops eats disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:41:18 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:51:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Okay, I'm puzzled. I run groff, then get an error > > /: write failed, file system is full > > Hmm... must be filling up /tmp. I've got about 5 megabytes free > on / and I can't imagine why groff would need all that but > anyway...I suspend groff and sure enough, df shows that that / is > indeed full, but there is nothing unusual in /tmp. In fact I > can't find *anything* on the root partition eating up space, yet > the space disappears. This is the traditional "invisible temporary file" trick, I suspect. The file has been deleted, but because it's still open, it still exists. If you kill groff, the space will be freed again. Groff just nukes the file to minimise the chances of temporary file collision, and to ensure that even if it crashes horribly you're not left with temporary files lying around. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message