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Date:      Sat, 19 Dec 1998 20:30:08 -0800
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
To:        cjclark@home.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: POP3 Error Message
Message-ID:  <19981219203008.D8676@cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <199812200108.UAA24573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from Crist J. Clark on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 08:08:21PM -0500
References:  <199812200108.UAA24573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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> I'm running a FreeBSD machine as a mail server for our
> company. Earlier in the week I started to get an unusual error message
> gernerated by the ipopd daemon (and occasionally by imapd). Here is
> the dmesg output, 
> 
> pid 21983 (ipop3d), uid 1026 on /: file system full

> However, a quick 'df -k' shows,
> 
> [108:~] df -k
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd0s2a     31775    15759    13474    54%    /
> /dev/wd0s2e    396895   180774   184370    50%    /usr
> /dev/wd0s2f    528175    50916   435005    10%    /var
> procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
> 
> My file system is not nearly full, and ipopd is not writing anything
> to the root file system that I know of.
> 
> Anyone know what this is about?

Sometimes on one of our machines, df output wouldn't update for some reason.
Perhaps its out of wack? Rebooting fixed it, perhaps your / is actually
full? Just an idea, as services generally DON'T complain about a disk full,
unless it is actually full! :)  

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