Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?
We FOUND IT. We did do the procedure that Michael recommended, but unfortunately none of the nfs mount labels /var /usr /tmp contained any data after booting into single user mode. What we did find was a NFS folder that contained a huge 300 meg .tar.gz file that wasn't finished downloading. (Was a BSDSRC tree that was tar'd gz'd) Have to watch for massive NFS file transfers of abnormally large files -- that is what caused the issue. Next time we'll use WGET instead while sitting at the /usr partition instead of the root folder. From: Lowell Gilbert To: rtsit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 1:13 PM Subject: Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space? rtsit writes: > I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that any process in > memory that still claimed ownership of an open part of the disk would > release it. There are other things that can cause disk space to seem to disappear, but there is a reason that one is in the FAQ list and the others aren't; it's virtually always the cause when someone reports such a problem on this list. > Didn't work. I'm going to try the other method recommended by Michael > Sierchio -- to reboot in single user mode and try and clear out any > directory structures that could exist that my mount labels could be > hiding. Thanks for the reply and helpful link. If the mounts are shadowing files, that will certainly hide data use. I hope that turns out to be the issue and you get it fixed quickly. > (It was nice to not see a RTFM response, but a helpful link -- it is > appreciated). I don't agree with you here. My response *was* RTFM, and I don't see anything inherently wrong with that. I'm glad it was helpful. Good luck. ___ 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! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?
Le 07/11/2011 à 10:27:02-0800, rtsit a écrit > Thanks Lowell. > > > I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that any process in memory that > still claimed ownership of an open part of the disk would release it. > > Didn't work. I'm going to try the other method recommended by Michael > Sierchio -- to reboot in single user mode and try and clear out any directory > structures that could exist that my mount labels could be hiding. Thanks for > the reply and helpful link. > Try to reboot in single mode and do a fsck on all partition. Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: mar 8 nov 2011 00:06:22 CET ___ 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! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?
rtsit writes: > I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that any process in > memory that still claimed ownership of an open part of the disk would > release it. There are other things that can cause disk space to seem to disappear, but there is a reason that one is in the FAQ list and the others aren't; it's virtually always the cause when someone reports such a problem on this list. > Didn't work. I'm going to try the other method recommended by Michael > Sierchio -- to reboot in single user mode and try and clear out any > directory structures that could exist that my mount labels could be > hiding. Thanks for the reply and helpful link. If the mounts are shadowing files, that will certainly hide data use. I hope that turns out to be the issue and you get it fixed quickly. > (It was nice to not see a RTFM response, but a helpful link -- it is > appreciated). I don't agree with you here. My response *was* RTFM, and I don't see anything inherently wrong with that. I'm glad it was helpful. Good luck. ___ 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! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?
Thanks Lowell. I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that any process in memory that still claimed ownership of an open part of the disk would release it. Didn't work. I'm going to try the other method recommended by Michael Sierchio -- to reboot in single user mode and try and clear out any directory structures that could exist that my mount labels could be hiding. Thanks for the reply and helpful link. (It was nice to not see a RTFM response, but a helpful link -- it is appreciated). From: Lowell Gilbert To: rtsit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 10:01 AM Subject: Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space? Try the FAQ entry titled "The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on?". You can find it at: http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF ___ 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! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?
Try the FAQ entry titled "The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on?". You can find it at: http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF ___ 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"
