Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?

2011-11-08 Thread rtsit
___ From: Lowell Gilbert To: rtsit Cc: "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 writes: > I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping t

Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?

2011-11-07 Thread Albert Shih
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 >

Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?

2011-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
rtsit 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

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

2011-11-07 Thread rtsit
@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 wrote: > Indiscriminately instructing a user to delete files isn't good advice no > matter

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Sierchio
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

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Vande More
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

Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?

2011-11-07 Thread rtsit
: "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 g

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Sierchio
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 _

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

2011-11-07 Thread rtsit
_ 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

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Vande More
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 )

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Sierchio
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

Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?

2011-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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 ma

Re: Oh, no....

2006-09-02 Thread Jerold McAllister
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 th

Got to the CDROM drive!! (Was: Re: Oh, no....)

2006-09-02 Thread Gary Kline
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

Re: Oh, no....

2006-09-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
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 the

Re: Oh, no....

2006-09-02 Thread Gary Kline
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 mos

Re: Oh, no....

2006-09-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
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