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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:56:56 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        vipor <vipor_1@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: seeking help--- my /tmp is full ---109 %
Message-ID:  <20010810105656.A2974@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <001001c12126$95ff60a0$0400a8c0@ocnsd1.sdca.home.com>; from vipor_1@hotmail.com on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:56:54PM -0700
References:  <001001c12126$95ff60a0$0400a8c0@ocnsd1.sdca.home.com>

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:56:54PM -0700, vipor wrote:
> hello,
> can someone please assist me I am at a loss, my /tmp directory is obviously
> full.  But I'm unable to determine why.
> and most important I'm also unable to fix this with my current skills and
> abilities.
> If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this..?

[...]

I'd suspect that some process is holding a file in /tmp open. If you
can determine the process and kill/stop it, you'll get back your
space. What does:

	# fstat /tmp

tell you?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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