From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 16:43:22 2002 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 1767237B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net (maynard.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6C243E26 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:43:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tristan11@mindspring.com) Received: from user-vcaup8t.dsl.mindspring.com ([216.175.101.29] helo=localhost) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17PApB-0004Ru-00; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:43:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:45:20 -0700 Subject: Re: / slice full Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: Philip Hallstrom From: Michelle Weeks In-Reply-To: <20020701162206.P41191-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> Message-Id: <9AD63866-8D4C-11D6-BF42-00039368B8EC@mindspring.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) 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 > A process could have a file open that you've since deleted. This > wouldn't > show up in ls, but it's still there. how can i tell if this is happening? when i run top, i don't see anything unusual. > > If you're out of space I'd make sure that /tmp is *not* on the root > partition, but is a symlink to /var/tmp. this is a good idea which i will do, but so far /tmp is just 5k > > You can also probably safely delete /modules.old as well. > > You can also run "cd /; du -hcsx *" This will tell you how much space > each directory is. The -x prevents it from traversing file systems so > it > won't look in /usr and /var. when i run du -hcsx it give the output: 124M . 124M total > > good luck! > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Michelle Weeks wrote: > >> i am getting an error message from our freebsd 4.5 server that the >> kernel folder is too full. when i do a df of the file systems it shows >> the / slice to be at 108% capacity; however when i do a long list of >> the >> directories under root, it doesn't appear that root should be full. >> i'm very new to freebsd and can't figure out what could be causing >> this. i have recently set up raid1 on using vinum on 2 additional scsi >> drives. not sure if this would have anything to do with it. >> >> thank you for any input, >> michelle >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message