Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:58:45 -0400 From: Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... Message-ID: <200506160958.45589.ean@hedron.org> In-Reply-To: <c62e57e1dd99f58ceeb0def43229a083@comcast.net> References: <c62e57e1dd99f58ceeb0def43229a083@comcast.net>
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On June 15, 2005 05:24 pm, SteveW wrote: > Hi All, > > df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... > > After searching google freebsd.org I am no nearing to figuring this > out, other than this is a "known" problem. Either I or the system > managed to get the root partition back to under 100% but only just... I > have looked for any large files that might be taking up space but have > yet to locate anything over 3meg. > > Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts gratefully received. 1. Create a separate /tmp filesystem. You should never let ordinary users (or daemons) write to the root filesystem. Unless you really need the nearly 4G of space you have in /var for a specific reason, you should be able to take some space out of there for your /tmp. 2. Use du to track down large files/directories, as was suggested by someone else. 3. Double check the size of hidden files in / and /root. 4. When you find out what is/was filling your filesystem, change the configuration so it doesn't happen again. > > Thanks, > > > Steve > > > > INFO: > FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p10 / 80gig drive > > df was: /dev/ad0s1a 252M 250M -18.5M 108% > > df now: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 252M 230M 1.8M 99% / > /dev/ad0s1g 29G 2.3G 24G 9% /home > /dev/ad0s1f 3.0G 1.7G 1.0G 62% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 3.9G 75M 3.5G 2% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > After the cras dmesg was filled with this: > pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full > pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full > -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly.
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