From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 17 15:43:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1313C106566C for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:43:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.78.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D312E8FC32 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:43:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id D0D5D28465; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:43:51 -0400 (EDT) To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" References: <878724.45020.qm@web53408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:43:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878724.45020.qm@web53408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (Jennifer Nussbaum's message of "Mon\, 17 Mar 2008 08\:34\:18 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: <448x0hpd8o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent: filesystem "full", though space is available X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:43:53 -0000 "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" writes: > Hi, Ive got a big problem now on a production server. > > When i do various things, i am getting "write failed, file system full" > messages all over the place. Ive gone through and deleted > things i can, and i should have the space now, but its just > not available: > > $ df -m > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 2015 1858 -3 100% / > /dev/da0s1e 14061 9002 3933 70% /usr/local > procfs 0 0 0 100% /proc > > I dont know what kind of math lets you do 2015-1858 and gives > you an answer of -3! > > I have softupdates, or whatever, but i dont know how to get > it to release this space. I cant reboot the running server. > I am planning on adding a disc to this system but right now > i need to get this space released ASAP! Can anyone help? Please see the FreeBSD FAQ entries on "The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on?" and "How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full?" -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/