From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 20 14:46:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A36516A412 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:46:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4108943D49 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:46:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from enabled.com (localhost.enabled.com [127.0.0.1]) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3KEkEhS009409 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:46:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) From: "Noah" To: "freebsd-questions" Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:46:14 -0800 Message-Id: <20060420141550.M51182@enabled.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.51 20050228 X-OriginatingIP: 24.5.78.100 (admin2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: file system full help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:46:15 -0000 I sometimes get reports of "file system full" but not accurately because when viewing the drive with "df -k" I find there is adequate space on the drive. Usually this is casused by log files considered larger than the available space on the /var directory. I would like to see if this in fact the case. Can somebody please remind me what commands I can use to troubleshoot this current condition? thanks in advance, Noah