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

[rtsit]

Ok, I'll try this procedure as soon as I've got someone physically infront of the console,  and I'll report the results.

Thank you very much.  When it comes to root partition problems and remote SSHing, it always sends chills up my spine. :)



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From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu at tenebras.com>
To: rtsit <rtsit at yahoo.com>
Cc: "freebsd-questions at freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions at 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 full.

Boot in single user mode.
for each mount point ( /tmp /usr /var )
chflags -R noschg /<mount point>
rm -rf /<mount point>/*

You probably have a lot of hidden files covered by the mounted filesystems.

- M

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:39 AM, rtsit <rtsit at yahoo.com> 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
>
>
> Filesystem                                   1024-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad4s1a                                       507630   495736    -28716   106%    /
> devfs                                                  1        1         0   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad4s1e                                       507630       22    466998     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad4s1f                                    231510140 42142584 170846746    20%    /usr
> /dev/ad4s1d                                      2004302   117636   1726322     6%    /var
> # du -hxd1 /
> 2.0K    /.snap
> 512B    /dev
> 2.0K    /tmp
> 2.0K    /usr
> 2.0K    /var
> 4.3M    /etc
> 2.0K    /cdrom
> 2.0K    /dist
> 990K    /bin
> 127M    /boot
> 5.9M    /lib
> 342K    /libexec
> 2.0K    /media
> 2.0K    /mnt
> 2.0K    /proc
> 3.7M    /rescue
>  40K    /root
> 3.9M    /sbin
> 2.0K    /command
> 2.0K    /service
> 146M    /
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