From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 1:29:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from helios.soupnazi.org (cerberus.soupnazi.org [66.92.15.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B8337B417 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 01:29:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by helios.soupnazi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E9223312A; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 01:29:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 01:29:43 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: Mark Pude Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/ is full Message-ID: <20011108092943.GA3609@helios.soupnazi.org> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 at 01:21:24 -0500, Mark Pude wrote: > Hi-- > I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.4. Recently I started getting a > message that /var is full. I don't know why this has happened, but it > prevents me from running certain programs that try and create files in > /var/tmp. Simple programs like VI just won't save a file after I've > modified it. I've looked through the documentation and have found > nothing of use on this problem. If you could could help me, I would > be pleased. How big is your /var? Have you looked to see what's filling it? My guess is there's either a gigantic email attachment in your mailbox or you've got a really small /var and lots of log files. - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message