Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 02:02:17 -0500 From: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: "F . Xavier Noria" <fxn@retemail.es> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var full, what to do? Message-ID: <20010626020217.A845@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <01062302543601.13199@conway>; from fxn@retemail.es on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:54:36AM %2B0200 References: <01062302543601.13199@conway>
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:54:36AM +0200, F . Xavier Noria wrote: > Trying to install a package I got lots of messages like this: > > /var: write failed, file system is full > tar: couldn't write to file lib/linux-netscape6/components/libmsgimap.so : No space left on device > > The FreeBSD slice of the disk it's 2G and the output of df -m once pkg_add > finished was > > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s2a 96 30 58 34% / > /dev/ad0s2f 1770 731 897 45% /usr > /dev/ad0s2e 19 4 13 23% /var > procfs 0 0 0 100% /proc > > Was the installation trying to write a library under /var? Could I do > something to fix that or should I need to modify the sizes of the > partitions? What I do is try and find out what subdirectory is filling up. Some times just following the err message you can poke around in /var and see where the problem is. Then I do a sym-link to a directory in /usr and let the files store there. I would suspect /var/tmp if it's during an install. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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