Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:05:48 -0800 From: "Noah" <admin2@enabled.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] file system full help Message-ID: <20060420160548.M85813@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <44acagcks5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20060420141550.M51182@enabled.com> <44acagcks5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 20 Apr 2006 11:46:18 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote > "Noah" <admin2@enabled.com> writes: > > > 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? > > I'm not sure I understand what you're asking correctly, but these FAQ > entries may help explain what the filesystem is doing: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU- > VS-DF http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859- > 1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL you know I found those pages and they were completely unhelpful. lsof looks a lot deeper and sees reserved space that df and du does not show. read my original post. I already explained that. cheers, Naoh
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