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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
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
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 coveri
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
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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
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 )
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
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%
