Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:56:43 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Derek Bottles <derek@rchco.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system full errors Message-ID: <20001208135643.A4694@jonc.itouch> In-Reply-To: <4.1.20001207163253.00a18f00@192.168.1.240>; from derek@rchco.com on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:45:34PM -0600 References: <4.1.20001207163253.00a18f00@192.168.1.240>
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:45:34PM -0600, Derek Bottles wrote:
> I have a problem that I just do not seem to have the time to hunt down. I
> am hoping that someone might be able to send me an e-mail of how to attack
> this.
>
> As you can see from the logs below I have disk space on this system but
> also have several processes that hare having issues with the file system
> being full. To add to the mystery every thing seems to be working fine,
> e-mail is getting though just fine even though the system is clearly
> indicating that mail.local (MDA) and ipop3d (the retrieval program) both
> are unhappy.
>
> Swap and memory are also showing lots of spare room for growth.
>
> Any ideas are welcome. I am not a UNIX guru by any means but do OK given
> time to track everything down. Thanks
>
> Derek Bottles
>
>
> Disk status:
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/wd0s1a 49583 26621 18996 58% /
Your / partition is dreadfully small, as it is also accomodating /tmp
which is the general dumping ground for various temporary files.
You will need to create another file-system and mount it as /tmp to
get around your problem.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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