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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:21:32 +0100 (CET)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: filesystem full?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000324152132.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBLGJECLNPOOFNABJCGEAMCAAA.troy@picus.com>

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On 24-Mar-00 Troy Settle wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I've seen this come up before, but don't remember seeing an answer.
> 
> After some 200 days of uptime, one of my boxes decided to play stupid and
> pretend like the /var filesystem was full.  As you can imagine, this screwed
> up all sorts of things.  Not until I did a reboot, did the machine start
> behaving properly.
> 
> 
> Now, as you can see with the information below, du doesn't show a difference
> of the before and after, yet df does.
> 
> This problem, whatever it is, is a serious threat to FreeBSD's claim of
> stability.  200 days is a good, long time, and this machine is due for an
> update anyways, but I would have expected that it could have stays up
> indefinately.  This box has been rock solid until it started loosing it's
> marbles.
> 
Perhaps /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps pertain to this?

Quote:
# Use at your own risk, but for a long-living system, this might come
# more useful than the boot-time cleaning of /tmp.  If /var/tmp and
# /tmp are symlinked together, only one of the below will actually
# run.



/Micke



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