Thank you. The problem was that backupvar was within the / partition instead of having its own partition on the second (backup) hard drive. As so clearly explained by Giorgos. Thank you all for our time, patience and wisdom :)
David Radovanovic WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc. -- Bright ideas for the Web! 249 Partition Street Saugerties, New York 12477 (845) 247-0909, FAX: (845) 246-3880 http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com [-----Original Message----- [From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:13 PM [To: David Radovanovic [Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Subject: Re: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up) [ [ [On 2003-02-28 12:06, David Radovanovic [<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [> Hello, [> Searched everywhere which lead me to a prior posting about a similar [> problem. My file system is filling up again, but in different places. [ [Thank you for looking at the archives first. Honestly, thanks :-) [ [> I initiated a rscync script that runs via cron which coincidently [> ran just before my system filling up. I'm sure the answer is obvious [> to anyone but myself. Any help would help divert my disaster. [> Thanks. My system: [> [> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on [> /dev/ad0s1a 128990 127118 -8446 107% / [> /dev/ad0s1f 257998 118 237242 0% /tmp [> /dev/ad0s1g 9092908 2060994 6304482 25% /usr [> /dev/ad0s1e 257998 83548 153812 35% /var [> /dev/ad2s1a 128990 2 118670 0% /backup [> /dev/ad2s1f 257998 2 237358 0% /backuptmp [> /dev/ad2s1g 18028798 2083266 14503230 13% /backupusr [> /dev/ad2s1e 257998 2 237358 0% /backuptmp [> procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc [ [Note that there is no /backupvar mount point listed above... [ [> The script in question: [> [> #!/bin/sh [> [> /usr/local/bin/rsync -avx --delete --stats / /backup/ [> /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats --exclude=/run/ /var/ [/backupvar/ [> /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats /usr/ /backupusr/ [ [The second command will attempt to synchronise /var with /backupvar [and effectively create a copy of the entire /var partition in your [root filesystem. Since /dev/ad0s1e (your /var partition) is larger [than /dev/ad0s1a (the root partition) this will quickly fill the root [partition to 100% and start grabbing blocks from the "reserved space" [(the default is 8% of the partition). You are running this as root [and FreeBSD doesn't block you at 100% but goes on merrily with its job [until both the partition and the reserved space are full [(100 + 8 = 108%; this is why the usage percentage in / is listed as [107% and not as 100%). [ [> Thanks again for any help. [ [You're welcome :) [ [- Giorgos [ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
