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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:01:57 -0500
From:      "David Radovanovic" <david.radovanovic@verizon.net>
To:        "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "David Radovanovic" <dave@whatsthebigidea.com>, <shovey@buffnet.net>, "Moti Levy" <moti@flncs.com>, <sean@rackoperations.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up)
Message-ID:  <NEBBKHDKKLPFAIALALCOKEALEAAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030228211301.GA3173@gothmog.gr>

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Thank you. The problem was that backupvar was within the / partition instead
of having its own partition on the second (backup) hard drive. As so clearly
explained by Giorgos. Thank you all for our time, patience and wisdom :)

David Radovanovic
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[-----Original Message-----
[From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr]
[Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:13 PM
[To: David Radovanovic
[Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
[Subject: Re: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up)
[
[
[On 2003-02-28 12:06, David Radovanovic
[<david.radovanovic@verizon.net> wrote:
[> Hello,
[> Searched everywhere which lead me to a prior posting about a similar
[> problem. My file system is filling up again, but in different places.
[
[Thank you for looking at the archives first.  Honestly, thanks :-)
[
[> I initiated a rscync script that runs via cron which  coincidently
[> ran just before my system filling up. I'm sure the answer is obvious
[> to anyone but myself. Any help would help divert my disaster.
[> Thanks. My system:
[>
[> Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
[> /dev/ad0s1a    128990  127118    -8446   107%    /
[> /dev/ad0s1f    257998     118   237242     0%    /tmp
[> /dev/ad0s1g   9092908 2060994  6304482    25%    /usr
[> /dev/ad0s1e    257998   83548   153812    35%    /var
[> /dev/ad2s1a    128990       2   118670     0%    /backup
[> /dev/ad2s1f    257998       2   237358     0%    /backuptmp
[> /dev/ad2s1g  18028798 2083266 14503230    13%    /backupusr
[> /dev/ad2s1e    257998       2   237358     0%    /backuptmp
[> procfs              4       4        0   100%    /proc
[
[Note that there is no /backupvar mount point listed above...
[
[> The script in question:
[>
[> #!/bin/sh
[>
[> /usr/local/bin/rsync -avx --delete --stats / /backup/
[> /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats --exclude=/run/ /var/
[/backupvar/
[> /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats /usr/ /backupusr/
[
[The second command will attempt to synchronise /var with /backupvar
[and effectively create a copy of the entire /var partition in your
[root filesystem.  Since /dev/ad0s1e (your /var partition) is larger
[than /dev/ad0s1a (the root partition) this will quickly fill the root
[partition to 100% and start grabbing blocks from the "reserved space"
[(the default is 8% of the partition).  You are running this as root
[and FreeBSD doesn't block you at 100% but goes on merrily with its job
[until both the partition and the reserved space are full
[(100 + 8 = 108%; this is why the usage percentage in / is listed as
[107% and not as 100%).
[
[> Thanks again for any help.
[
[You're welcome :)
[
[- Giorgos
[



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