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Date:      Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:56:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        cao@bus.net (Chuck O'Donnell)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: curious "file system full" error
Message-ID:  <199904020456.XAA09172@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990401152600.A9613@milf18.bus.net> from Chuck O'Donnell at "Apr 1, 99 03:26:00 pm"

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Chuck O'Donnell wrote,
> Given the following file system (on FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE... old I know):
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a       59471    12352    42362    23%    /
> /dev/sd0s1e   4125051   820026  2975021    22%    /usr
> /dev/sd1s1e   2035244   194146  1678279    10%    /var
> procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
> 
> 
> Does it seem unusual to see kernel errors like this?
> 
> Apr  1 15:08:40 edna /kernel: pid 9250 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full
> 
> I thought that mail.local confined its activities to /var ?

From the 'man mail.local' page,

FILES
     /var/tmp/local.XXXXXX  temporary files
     /var/mail/user         user's mailbox directory

Is /var/tmp symlinked to /tmp?

Also, have you tried,

% df -i

You might have run out of inodes.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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