Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it
Until Adam Vande More offers a better solution other than saying someone's advice is "terrible" -- there is no point in debating further. Thanks again Michael. From: Michael Sierchio To: Adam Vande More Cc: rtsit ; "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 10:37 AM Subject: Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > Indiscriminately instructing a user to delete files isn't good advice no > matter how much butter you put on it. It was with no small amount of discrimination and discernment that I offered that advice. Any files that exist there should not. Read carefully. - M (UNIX since SYS III ver. 7, FreeBSD since 2.2.1) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > Indiscriminately instructing a user to delete files isn't good advice no > matter how much butter you put on it. It was with no small amount of discrimination and discernment that I offered that advice. Any files that exist there should not. Read carefully. - M (UNIX since SYS III ver. 7, FreeBSD since 2.2.1) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Adam Vande More > wrote: > > > This is terrible advice. There are proper methods for finding what's > using > > the space and to recover it. You should use them. > > If there are files hidden by a covering mount, you won't find them > when those filesystems are mounted. > > Indiscriminately instructing a user to delete files isn't good advice no matter how much butter you put on it. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > This is terrible advice. There are proper methods for finding what's using > the space and to recover it. You should use them. If there are files hidden by a covering mount, you won't find them when those filesystems are mounted. - M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it
Ok, I'll try this procedure as soon as I've got someone physically infront of the console, and I'll report the results. Thank you very much. When it comes to root partition problems and remote SSHing, it always sends chills up my spine. :) From: Michael Sierchio To: rtsit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 10:05 AM Subject: Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it You're mistaken. ;-) 495736 / 507630, with some margin for free space, means you're full. Boot in single user mode. for each mount point ( /tmp /usr /var ) chflags -R noschg / rm -rf //* You probably have a lot of hidden files covered by the mounted filesystems. - M On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:39 AM, rtsit wrote: > > > Why does it say my main root partition is full when it's not? It's only using > 146 Meg out of a possible 507 Meg > > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail > Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad4s1a 507630 495736 -28716 > 106% / > devfs 1 1 0 > 100% /dev > /dev/ad4s1e 507630 22 > 466998 0% /tmp > /dev/ad4s1f 231510140 42142584 > 170846746 20% /usr > /dev/ad4s1d 2004302 117636 > 1726322 6% /var > # du -hxd1 / > 2.0K /.snap > 512B /dev > 2.0K /tmp > 2.0K /usr > 2.0K /var > 4.3M /etc > 2.0K /cdrom > 2.0K /dist > 990K /bin > 127M /boot > 5.9M /lib > 342K /libexec > 2.0K /media > 2.0K /mnt > 2.0K /proc > 3.7M /rescue > 40K /root > 3.9M /sbin > 2.0K /command > 2.0K /service > 146M / > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:39 AM, rtsit wrote: > > > Why does it say my main root partition is full when it's not? It's only > using 146 Meg out of a possible 507 Meg > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF Boot in single user mode. > for each mount point ( /tmp /usr /var ) > chflags -R noschg / > rm -rf //* > This is terrible advice. There are proper methods for finding what's using the space and to recover it. You should use them. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it
You're mistaken. ;-) 495736 / 507630, with some margin for free space, means you're full. Boot in single user mode. for each mount point ( /tmp /usr /var ) chflags -R noschg / rm -rf //* You probably have a lot of hidden files covered by the mounted filesystems. - M On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:39 AM, rtsit wrote: > > > Why does it say my main root partition is full when it's not? It's only using > 146 Meg out of a possible 507 Meg > > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail > Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad4s1a 507630 495736 -28716 > 106% / > devfs 1 1 0 > 100% /dev > /dev/ad4s1e 507630 22 > 466998 0% /tmp > /dev/ad4s1f 231510140 42142584 > 170846746 20% /usr > /dev/ad4s1d 2004302 117636 > 1726322 6% /var > # du -hxd1 / > 2.0K /.snap > 512B /dev > 2.0K /tmp > 2.0K /usr > 2.0K /var > 4.3M /etc > 2.0K /cdrom > 2.0K /dist > 990K /bin > 127M /boot > 5.9M /lib > 342K /libexec > 2.0K /media > 2.0K /mnt > 2.0K /proc > 3.7M /rescue > 40K /root > 3.9M /sbin > 2.0K /command > 2.0K /service > 146M / > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it
Why does it say my main root partition is full when it's not? It's only using 146 Meg out of a possible 507 Meg Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 507630 495736 -28716 106% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad4s1e 507630 22 466998 0% /tmp /dev/ad4s1f 231510140 42142584 170846746 20% /usr /dev/ad4s1d 2004302 117636 1726322 6% /var # du -hxd1 / 2.0K /.snap 512B /dev 2.0K /tmp 2.0K /usr 2.0K /var 4.3M /etc 2.0K /cdrom 2.0K /dist 990K /bin 127M /boot 5.9M /lib 342K /libexec 2.0K /media 2.0K /mnt 2.0K /proc 3.7M /rescue 40K /root 3.9M /sbin 2.0K /command 2.0K /service 146M / ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
