From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 19:27:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E881065670 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:27:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f20.google.com (mail-bw0-f20.google.com [209.85.218.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37C68FC17 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:27:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by bwz13 with SMTP id 13so2455583bwz.19 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:27:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=PEgQINrqFuE+iVsDlwB0uwPUo8wejdZmqtgGh6AIXiM=; b=jPZAWfmB3ReRpSSy6+wzCdO/eH1rJ7PiXjHKByjXnCXXSIf7bmk722S0BuvfBs8xUJ tsIC7nyeZF3U1pKA+8lP3vw9+RYCX14ZUD8syUevtFKZSy6GoVQs8SWyTEbiWJVMLcJi JYKwgnlx0tjYgz9amCycaIndXiXBSJWQeo8to= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NOTdo+2BKyqVU1R2lyczLpKqOCZYCzp8+vqydWjJHnGjRcOsCr5GUgdqWd49nNZEO/ VALZq8wsxR96BGvdULU14MD6GevU9YsHpdLJQgHvoVMvdskBHYGDDYF7GRi0IvmxJ3Mo oLud3BHOOQjFmPems8//45fkRylyf2kmfgeRc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.116.10 with SMTP id k10mr567897faq.101.1231961221535; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:27:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <23ed14b80901141034l16ee0dedp9837e4f1162e253b@mail.gmail.com> References: <23ed14b80901141034l16ee0dedp9837e4f1162e253b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:27:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4ad871310901141127o509d2480l56233209d79d1694@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Andy Wodfer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Help! locate.code /tmp: filesystem full 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: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:27:03 -0000 On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Andy Wodfer wrote: > Hi, > I'm getting an error message every week and I can't seem to understand why > nor manage to fix it. Here it is: > [snip] > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ar0s1a 989M 53M 857M 6% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ar0s1g 48G 8.5G 36G 19% /backup > /dev/ar0s1d 989M 44K 910M 0% /tmp > /dev/ar0s1f 387G 168G 189G 47% /usr > /dev/ar0s1e 7.7G 398M 6.7G 5% /var > > As you see there's 910MB free space in /tmp. Should be plenty to run the > weekly locate script? > Have you recently had disk failures? When was your last `fsck' ? What is the output of `du -h /tmp' ? To rule out if 910M is not enough, you could `mv' /tmp to /tmp.bak and do a hard link pointing a new /tmp somewhere with more space, for example /usr/faketmp. I don't know how this will affect fstab or mount, however. -- Glen Barber