Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:45:57 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /var full Message-ID: <EA09BDBE04BB7B81413DB590@Macintosh.local>
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At 10PM (local time) this evening, a server started reporting that /var was full. When I ssh'd in to the server to investigate, df said /var was at 2% full (5.1G) and dh reported the same (5.1G). /var/log/dmesg.today is full of messages listing multiple entries with the same inode number followed by one entry listing dd as the culprit. +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 7089166 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 7089166 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 7089166 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 7089166 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 7089166 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 7089166 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132107 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 73338 (dd), uid 2 inumber 27131975 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 730 (mysqld), uid 88 inumber 27132128 on /var: filesystem full +pid 73365 (dd), uid 2 inumber 27131920 on /var: filesystem full And so on. What is going on? The system seems to be functioning normally. df and dh report normal disk usage. Top looks fine. /var/log/dmesg.today shows 309 total lines and 98 unique lines. Was this some sort of temporary glitch? Or something more ominous? Why would toor be running dd? Is it some sort of file recovery routine triggered by filesystem full messages? Paul Schmehl If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
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