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Date:      Tue, 26 Jun 2001 02:02:17 -0500
From:      David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>
To:        "F . Xavier Noria" <fxn@retemail.es>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /var full, what to do?
Message-ID:  <20010626020217.A845@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <01062302543601.13199@conway>; from fxn@retemail.es on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:54:36AM %2B0200
References:  <01062302543601.13199@conway>

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On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:54:36AM +0200, F . Xavier Noria wrote:
> Trying to install a package I got lots of messages like this:
> 
>    /var: write failed, file system is full
>    tar: couldn't write to file lib/linux-netscape6/components/libmsgimap.so : No space left on device
> 
> The FreeBSD slice of the disk it's 2G and the output of df -m once pkg_add
> finished was
> 
>    Filesystem  1M-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>    /dev/ad0s2a        96       30       58    34%    /
>    /dev/ad0s2f      1770      731      897    45%    /usr
>    /dev/ad0s2e        19        4       13    23%    /var
>    procfs              0        0        0   100%    /proc
> 
> Was the installation trying to write a library under /var? Could I do
> something to fix that or should I need to modify the sizes of the
> partitions?

What I do is try and find out
what subdirectory is filling up.
Some times just following the err message you can poke around
in /var and see where the problem is.
Then I do a sym-link to a directory in /usr and let the files
store there.

I would suspect /var/tmp if it's during an install.

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