Re: Root fs full - free space always below 0
Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, so during a portupgrade on my laptop the root fs, with soft updates enabled, became full. So I removed a bunch of stuff to make a few gigs available. I checked and df reported more than a gig of free space - so I re-ran portupgrade. Then I noticed it was full again, with df showing a negative amount of free space. I removed even more stuff, and rebooted just incase there were more blocks to be freed. After the reboot df showed a negative amount of space again. So I removed even more data (rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles) and now I had 115 meg free df claimed. I then re-ran df in quick succession a few times and watched diskspace rapidly decrease to a negative 600 meg or so (note: the decrease was perhaps 150 meg/second, so it cannot have been a process writing data to disk in the background). After a couple more reboots and a manual fsck in single user mode I still have the same problem (on both CURRENT and 5.2.1-RELEASE kernels). What to do? Have you tried editing your ports-supfile and commenting out the src-all and the Chinese, German, etc... ports? Just make sure you have all the other ports uncommented. That will save you a lot of space, unless you need them. Michael -- Michael D. Whities [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one-arm.com -- There are four colors of hats to watch for: Black, White, Grey, and Red. The meanings are: Cracker, Hacker, Guru, and Victim. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Root fs full - free space always below 0
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:37:29 -0500 uidzero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, so during a portupgrade on my laptop the root fs, with soft updates enabled, became full. So I removed a bunch of stuff to make a few gigs available. I checked and df reported more than a gig of free space - so I re-ran portupgrade. Then I noticed it was full again, with df showing a negative amount of free space. I removed even more stuff, and rebooted just incase there were more blocks to be freed. After the reboot df showed a negative amount of space again. So I removed even more data (rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles) and now I had 115 meg free df claimed. I then re-ran df in quick succession a few times and watched diskspace rapidly decrease to a negative 600 meg or so (note: the decrease was perhaps 150 meg/second, so it cannot have been a process writing data to disk in the background). After a couple more reboots and a manual fsck in single user mode I still have the same problem (on both CURRENT and 5.2.1-RELEASE kernels). What to do? Have you tried editing your ports-supfile and commenting out the src-all and the Chinese, German, etc... ports? Just make sure you have all the other ports uncommented. That will save you a lot of space, unless you need them. while this 'will' save space, it will 'almost certainly' break any local /usr/ports/INDEX builds you attempt. Michael -- Michael D. Whities [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one-arm.com -- There are four colors of hats to watch for: Black, White, Grey, and Red. The meanings are: Cracker, Hacker, Guru, and Victim. ___ [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]
Re: Root fs full - free space always below 0
epilogue wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:37:29 -0500 uidzero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, so during a portupgrade on my laptop the root fs, with soft updates enabled, became full. So I removed a bunch of stuff to make a few gigs available. I checked and df reported more than a gig of free space - so I re-ran portupgrade. Then I noticed it was full again, with df showing a negative amount of free space. I removed even more stuff, and rebooted just incase there were more blocks to be freed. After the reboot df showed a negative amount of space again. So I removed even more data (rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles) and now I had 115 meg free df claimed. I then re-ran df in quick succession a few times and watched diskspace rapidly decrease to a negative 600 meg or so (note: the decrease was perhaps 150 meg/second, so it cannot have been a process writing data to disk in the background). After a couple more reboots and a manual fsck in single user mode I still have the same problem (on both CURRENT and 5.2.1-RELEASE kernels). What to do? Have you tried editing your ports-supfile and commenting out the src-all and the Chinese, German, etc... ports? Just make sure you have all the other ports uncommented. That will save you a lot of space, unless you need them. while this 'will' save space, it will 'almost certainly' break any local /usr/ports/INDEX builds you attempt. Michael -- Michael D. Whities [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one-arm.com -- There are four colors of hats to watch for: Black, White, Grey, and Red. The meanings are: Cracker, Hacker, Guru, and Victim. ___ [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] Just rebuild the INDEX... ? Michael -- Michael D. Whities [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one-arm.com -- There are four colors of hats to watch for: Black, White, Grey, and Red. The meanings are: Cracker, Hacker, Guru, and Victim. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root is full
On Feb 18, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Will Prater wrote: My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled so fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and now its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the root partition? Try cd / du -sk * Dw ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root is full
Will Prater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled so fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and now its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the root partition? du -x / will tell you what is using space (but note that deleting a file doesn't help until every process holding the file open also closes it). Also see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF 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]
Re: root is full
List, My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled so fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and now its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the root partition? Run du -sk * at the base of the file system (root in this case) where the problem is. Then cd in to suspicious directories - those that look excessively big and run du again Keep following bloated directories until you find your problem. I would guess you have logs (var/log) and mail (/var/mail) still in root and maybe even /tmp but who knows until you track it down a little better. You may need to either revise your disk layout or at least move some thing to a bigger partition and make symlinks. jerry Thanks in advance --will ___ [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]
Re: root is full
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Will Prater wrote: List, My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled so fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and now its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the root partition? check your root directory with # du -h -d 1 (or some other options you will find in # man du) Regards, Uli. Thanks in advance --will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root is full
Thanks all for the abundance of replys. Looks like you all had the same idea. Before I got your emails I found out the problem. I had another partition for backups mounted on the root level. I had forgot to add an entry to /etc/fstab. Things were running fine for weeks, however, there was a crash and when it came back online the /backup existed on the root. Thanks! On Feb 18, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Feb 18, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Will Prater wrote: My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled so fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and now its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the root partition? Try cd / du -sk * Dw --will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
