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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:13:03 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nobody knows the answer?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909011611480.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <37CD9E7C.FB04E606@ispro.net.tr>

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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have sent this email a 2 days ago but nobody answered yet.
> Is there anybody who I can contact with about this?
> I need an answer because this is a serious problem for me.

You may have a program that still has a reference to that file open.

try shutting down anything that may have a file open on that partition,
then restart it.

you may have luck using 'fstat' or 'lsof' (from ports/sysutils)

-Alfred

> 
> Evren
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: free space problem
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:42:10 +0300
> From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using 3.2-Stable and I have a 9GB disk drive used as cache for
> squid proxy. I have changed the min free space with tunefs program to 0
> but now I have a problem. Even though I have 250MB free space on the
> file system, I get file system full error.
> 
> usr/local/squid/cache/disk1: write failed, file system is full
> cp: ./backup.28-08-1999.tgz: No space left on device
> turkey:/usr/local/squid/cache/disk1#df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a    254063    90875   142863    39%    /
> /dev/da0s1f   3432241  1684020  1473642    53%    /usr
> /dev/da0s1e    127023     1234   115628     1%    /var
> /dev/da1s1e   8617428  8363169   254259    97%
> /usr/local/squid/cache/disk1
> /dev/da2s1e   8617428  7696737   920691    89%
> /usr/local/squid/cache/disk2
> procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
> turkey:/usr/local/squid/cache/disk1#
> 
> the output below is taken later after I deleted that big backup file
> with the
> -i option of the df command
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused
> Mounted
> on
> /dev/da0s1a    254063    90875   142863    39%    5518   57968     9%
> /
> /dev/da0s1f   3432241  1686306  1471356    53%   50425  807621     6%
> /usr
> /dev/da0s1e    127023     1243   115619     1%     148   31594     0%
> /var
> /dev/da1s1e   8617428  7775826   841602    90%  700170 1458420    32%
> /usr/local/squid/cache/disk1
> /dev/da2s1e   8617428  7717658   899770    90%  708745 1449845    33%
> /usr/local/squid/cache/disk2
> procfs              4        4        0   100%      37     495     7%
> /proc
> turkey:/root#
> 
> how come this is possible? also if now I am not able to use 250MB then
> is this mean
> that when the min free space was 8% which makes nearly 650MB of space;
> the system
> was not able to use 650MB of space for the defragmentation etc. stuff?
> because
> we are not able to access to 250MB so 400MB is left for the space and
> time optimazation
> thingies?
> 
> also if I had 500MB hard drive then 8% would make 40MB but even under
> same load
> if I had 5000MB hard drive then 8% makes 400MB which is a lot of
> space...
> is not it possible for ffs to work with 40MB again? why does it need
> more space
> for time optimization?
> 
> Evren Yurtesen
> yurtesen@ispro.net.tr
> 
> 
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