FileSystem Full error in FreeBSD 5.4-Release even if the partition is not full

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Tue Oct 25 07:38:37 PDT 2005


Deepak Naidu <deepak_nai at yahoo.com> wrote:
 >      I dont know ? all the errors are bouncing on my
 > FreeBSD mail server.  A month ago I have ported my
 > mail server from Linux to FreeBSD 5.4-Release.
 > 
 > I get the below error in my /var/log/messages
 > regarding the filesystem being full, whereas it is not
 > full.
 > 
 > Filesystem is not full at all, then why I am getting
 > this error message, did any one faced this issue.
 > 
 > 
 > Oct 25 14:58:30 kernel: pid 60077 (perl5.8.6), uid 125
 > inumber 50855 on /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming:
 > filesystem full

If it says it is full, then it is full, probably.  :-)

 > #df -h

Try "df -i" -- what does it say?

Best regards
   Oliver

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