Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:21:25 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: FreeBSD Administrator <freebsd@workgrp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is the 'procfs' filesystem? Message-ID: <199704040321.TAA08443@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:38:17 PST." <2.2.32.19970404023817.00690ba4@207.207.207.90>
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>Greetings fellow BSDers, > >I've inherited a small mail server that has recently started spewing out >errors about full file systems and temporary write errors that has me >baffled. The machine is running this version of FreeBSD, on a 486 system >with a small IDE disk: >bonkers: /kernel: FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 5 20:22:26 PDT 1995 > >All seems well, ie, mail flows in and out, but the console keeps displaying >this message: >Mar 31 19:22:16 bonkers /kernel: uid 0 on /: file system full > >Trying to process the mail queue gives: >bonkers: {78} sendmail -q >mail.local: temporary file write error > >The only thing I can see is that the "procfs" file system is 100% full. >Where the heck is this thing defined? Could this be the source of the >problem? Any suggestions on how to fix this? No, that's not the problem. procfs will always be "full"...it's not a real filesystem, just a special way to access process information via the filesystem hierarchy. >bonkers: {79} df >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/wd0a 24815 16201 6628 71% / ...this is the problem. You need more space for /tmp and /var, which is currently on your root filesystem. Probably the best thing to do would be to move /var to your /usr filesystem and create a symlink from /var to /usr/var. In any case, when you build the new system, you should make more space for "/"...you really want at least 40MB. You should also create a seperate filesystem for /var (and perhaps another for /tmp, too) that is at least 100MB or so. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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