[FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness
Were you running as root and downloaded a bunch of large files in your /root directory? =) If so you should delete those files and su to your normal user account and cd to your home directory then downloaded those large, needed files. On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Herbert Wolverson wrote: I have a system running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. It primarily functions as a firewall and router, and is generally pretty lightly loaded (load averages around 0.2). It is a low end system (P200, 64mb RAM, 2 gig hard drive), and is generally stable as a rock. The system has drives setup as follows: / 256M (UFS) /usr 1.2gb (UFS+Softupdates) (/var and /tmp are linked onto /usr/var and /usr/tmp respectively) This morning I noticed that the / partition was at 108% utilization, and df -h looked like this (approximately): FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 252M 256M -8M108% / Oddly, du -h -d1 -x showed only a total of 29Mb used on the partition! The output looked like this: su-2.05b# du -h -d1 -x 68K./dev 2.0K./usr 2.7M./stand 1.3M./etc 512B./proc 4.0M./bin 542K./boot 2.0K./mnt 6.4M./modules 30K./root 12M./sbin 4.0K./tmp 4.0K./oldvar 29M. When I rebooted the system (without deleting any files), df -h showed the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 252M29M 203M12%/ This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to avoid ever having to worry about this again! Thanks, Herbert Wolverson, The Turner Stephenson Group, Inc. http://www.tsghelp.com/ ___ freebsd-questions at freebsd.org http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions * Free http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035019.h tml space wierdness Herbert Wolverson * Free http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035021.h tml space wierdness Nathan C. Burnett * Free http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035024.h tml space wierdness HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER * [FAQ] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035034.h tml Re: Free space wierdness Lowell Gilbert * [FAQ] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035117.h tml Re: Free space wierdness Jerry McAllister ~Dallas Stephens ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness
Were you running as root and downloaded a bunch of large files in your /root directory? =) If so you should delete those files and su to your normal user account and cd to your home directory then downloaded those large, needed files. On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Herbert Wolverson wrote: I have a system running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. It primarily functions as a firewall and router, and is generally pretty lightly loaded (load averages around 0.2). It is a low end system (P200, 64mb RAM, 2 gig hard drive), and is generally stable as a rock. The system has drives setup as follows: / 256M (UFS) /usr 1.2gb (UFS+Softupdates) (/var and /tmp are linked onto /usr/var and /usr/tmp respectively) This morning I noticed that the / partition was at 108% utilization, and df -h looked like this (approximately): FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 252M 256M -8M108% / Oddly, du -h -d1 -x showed only a total of 29Mb used on the partition! The output looked like this: su-2.05b# du -h -d1 -x 68K./dev 2.0K./usr 2.7M./stand 1.3M./etc 512B./proc 4.0M./bin 542K./boot 2.0K./mnt 6.4M./modules 30K./root 12M./sbin 4.0K./tmp 4.0K./oldvar 29M. When I rebooted the system (without deleting any files), df -h showed the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 252M29M 203M12%/ This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to avoid ever having to worry about this again! Thanks, Herbert Wolverson, The Turner Stephenson Group, Inc. http://www.tsghelp.com/ ___ freebsd-questions at freebsd.org http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions * Free http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035019.h tml space wierdness Herbert Wolverson * Free http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035021.h tml space wierdness Nathan C. Burnett * Free http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035024.h tml space wierdness HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER * [FAQ] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035034.h tml Re: Free space wierdness Lowell Gilbert * [FAQ] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035117.h tml Re: Free space wierdness Jerry McAllister ~Dallas Stephens ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness
Herbert Wolverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to avoid ever having to worry about this again! The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL These two questions are discussed so frequently on this and other lists that you should be able to get numerous explanations with a small search on Google and I would be surprised if there were not a FAQ on this. So, check the web page. Basically, du and df look a slightly different things and there is a difference between how much root and regular users are allowed to write to a filesystem. jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness
Herbert Wolverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can do to avoid ever having to worry about this again! The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100% full? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
