FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:34:11PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:

> I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time 
> complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in 
> question has about 15G free space and more than 10000000 free inodes. Then 
> all by itself the error dissapears, only to be repeated several hours 
> later. What can it be and where to look? The server runs mainly apache and 
> sendmail, nothing special.

There is a FAQ, numerous questions threads and several
articles in online publications on this issue.   I am sure
you can easily find them with some basic searching.

Most of the problems/confusions come from two places.
The first is that an amount - normally 8% - is held out for root.
The second is processes that open/create a file to write and then
delink it but do not release it and continue to write to it.
It doesn't show up, but is still taking space.  The processes do this
so if they get killed, the space is automatically released.

////jerry
> 
> Thanks and regards
> 
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