From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Jun 25 23: 2:27 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD4A37B401
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:02:24 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com)
Received: from d.tracker ([65.92.112.206]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net
          (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP
          id <20010626060223.SBWK15384.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@d.tracker>;
          Tue, 26 Jun 2001 02:02:23 -0400
Received: (from david@localhost)
	by d.tracker (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5Q72Jj00949;
	Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:02:19 GMT
	(envelope-from david)
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>
References: <01062302543601.13199@conway>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i
In-Reply-To: <01062302543601.13199@conway>; from fxn@retemail.es on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:54:36AM +0200
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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