[FAQ] Re: Free space wierdness
Dallas Stephens II
dallasstephens at cox.net
Sat Mar 4 00:15:39 PST 2006
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):
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a 252M 256M -8M 108% /
>
> 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:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a 252M 29M 203M 12% /
>
> 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/
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* 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
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