It looks correct on your current run (cfengine reports 18% free and df shows 82% used, which mactches exactly). Your var does seem fairly volitile, since its about 300MB larger today thatn a couple of days ago. Perhaps you spool a lot of mail or print jobs, or maybe system accounting files.
Frank --On Friday, May 13, 2005 14:39:50 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still confused because there is such a wide difference between what > is reported with cfengine and what is reported by df > > I've defined a class when cfengine mentiones low-space condition, and > just run df at that time point: > > > cfengine:ravana: Free disk space is under 20% for partition > cfengine:ravana: containing /var (18% free) > cfengine:ravana: Executing script /bin/df /var...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1) > cfengine:ravana:/bin/df /var: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used > Available Use% Mounted on > cfengine:ravana:/bin/df /var: /dev/sda7 1542156 1251300 > 290856 82% /var > cfengine:ravana: Finished script /bin/df /var > > Why that could happen? > > > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:35:06AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >> I'm getting confused with one of the hosts reporting low space in one of >> the partitions: > >> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 07:35:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > cfengine:ravana: Free disk space is under 20% for partition >> > cfengine:ravana: containing /var (1% free) > >> when I df it, it shows plenty of space: > >> ravana[0] /boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg>df /var >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda7 1542156 995644 546512 65% /var > >> and if I manually run cfagent -v then I get > >> Checking free space on /var >> Free space above -20, defining > >> so everything looks ok... > >> does it mean that I have some beast process which dumps 0.5GB into var >> from time to time and removes it immediately? or there is something else >> to check for? > -- > Yaroslav Halchenko > Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark > Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 > 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07105 > Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501 _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine