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 freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org To: rtsit rt...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 rt...@yahoo.com 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?
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! 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 /mount point rm -rf /mount point/* You probably have a lot of hidden files covered by the mounted filesystems. - M On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:39 AM, rtsit rt...@yahoo.com 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 rt...@yahoo.com 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 /mount point rm -rf /mount point/* 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
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 ku...@tenebras.com To: rtsit rt...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 /mount point rm -rf /mount point/* You probably have a lot of hidden files covered by the mounted filesystems. - M On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:39 AM, rtsit rt...@yahoo.com 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 10:21 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com 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! 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 freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org To: rtsit rt...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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! 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 ku...@tenebras.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com 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 10:33 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com 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
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 ku...@tenebras.com To: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Cc: rtsit rt...@yahoo.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 amvandem...@gmail.com 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! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?
rtsit rt...@yahoo.com 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....
On 2006-09-01 20:30, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my FreeBSD has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a int divide by zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have several megs of data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk? Or is all hope lost? gary Fatal trap 18: blah, blah Uptime 1sec Have you restarted the system that crashed? Does it consistently panic when you try to boot, or was this a panic introduced by the particular conditions of that moment? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oh, no....
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:08:40PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-09-01 20:30, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my FreeBSD has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a int divide by zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have several megs of data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk? Or is all hope lost? gary Fatal trap 18: blah, blah Uptime 1sec Have you restarted the system that crashed? Does it consistently panic when you try to boot, or was this a panic introduced by the particular conditions of that moment? 100% consistent. tHe strange thing is that when I set the boot-order in the BIOS to CDROM it's ignored. (Maybe I don't have the boot CD? that occured when I was crawling out of bed!) I have all 4 f the 5.3 boxed set. --Another few gallons of coffee and I'll check. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oh, no....
On 2006-09-02 11:01, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 100% consistent. tHe strange thing is that when I set the boot-order in the BIOS to CDROM it's ignored. (Maybe I don't have the boot CD? that occured when I was crawling out of bed!) I have all 4 f the 5.3 boxed set. So there is no way to boot from install disc-1 of FreeBSD? This should at least give you a chance to boot from the install disc, and then insert the FixIt CD-ROM to start investigating what is wrong, as Greg Lehey suggested :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Got to the CDROM drive!! (Was: Re: Oh, no....)
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:49:03PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-09-02 11:01, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 100% consistent. tHe strange thing is that when I set the boot-order in the BIOS to CDROM it's ignored. (Maybe I don't have the boot CD? that occured when I was crawling out of bed!) I have all 4 f the 5.3 boxed set. So there is no way to boot from install disc-1 of FreeBSD? This should at least give you a chance to boot from the install disc, and then insert the FixIt CD-ROM to start investigating what is wrong, as Greg Lehey suggested :) Finally (after 57th reset), I must have done something/enough to the BIOS so that the server booted from the boot CD; I just dropped in th live-fs disc. Probably can't scp stuff out so this is ging to take some serious poking around! -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oh, no....
Gary Kline writes: gary Fatal trap 18: blah, blah Uptime 1sec Have you restarted the system that crashed? Does it consistently panic when you try to boot, or was this a panic introduced by the particular conditions of that moment? 100% consistent. tHe strange thing is that when I set the boot-order in the BIOS to CDROM it's ignored. (Maybe I don't have the boot CD? that occured when I was crawling out of bed!) I have all 4 f the 5.3 boxed set. --Another few gallons of coffee and I'll check. The first CD is bootable. I had something like this happen on an install a couple of weeks ago. I set the boot order with Cd before HDD and it would completely ignore the CD and just boot from the Hard Disk. I had just used that CD to install another machine so I didn't even think the CD might be bad. But, then a couple of days later I tried it in a machine I was sure of and the same thing happened. So, I burned another copy on a different machine and it worked just fine on both. The one that was ignoring the Cd and booting from the HDD, then booted fine From the newly burned CD. So, I would suggest it might be possible that you have some sort of marginal burn on the CD and it will work on some machines and not others. Good luck, jerry -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
