On Monday 10 March 2003 08:02 am, Brian wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2003 07:54 am, civileme wrote: > > On Monday 10 March 2003 03:17 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I noticed this yesterday after receiving an error message from Mozilla > > > that it couldn't send a message. So far I've been all over the > > > filesystem every way I know how, but still can't find a reason for this > > > condition. > > > > > > So far I've phyiscally examined the filesystem with mc and du to see if > > > I could find an extra large file somewhere, but nothing is popping out. > > > The only thing on the "/" filesystem is everything but /var and /usr. > > > I'm suspicious of the manner in which /mnt may be affecting the root > > > filesystem. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > /dev/hda1 718M 674M 7.6M 99% / > > > none 62M 0 61M 0% /dev/shm > > > /dev/hda10 618M 308M 310M 50% /home > > > /dev/hdc1 643M 611M 0 100% /mnt/arc > > > /dev/hda11 3.5G 2.1G 1.2G 61% /mnt/arc_2 > > > /dev/hda6 1.4G 1.4G 26M 99% /usr > > > /dev/hda7 934M 538M 349M 61% /var > > > /dev/hda9 3.9G 906M 2.8G 24% /var/ftp > > > /dev/hda8 1.1G 179M 869M 18% /var/www > > > > try this > > > > open a terminal > > su to root > > > > # mkdir -p /var/www/maxis > > # rm -r /tmp -f > > # ln -d /var/www/maxis /tmp > > > > mozilla uses /tmp for many things, including reassembling packets from a > > download into a file before moving the file to its final destination. > > /tmp is in / in your system ... After this little setting, you should be > > good to go even for downloading an .iso file. > > > > Civileme > > Check the size of /var/log. It could be your log files are filling root. > > Brian
eeehhh... Brian, he noted that ""/" filesystem is everything but /var and /usr" so /var is not part of the / partition, and so not that part of the problem
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