df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why...

[Aaron Gibson]

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SteveW wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why...
> 
> After searching google freebsd.org I am no nearing to figuring this out,
> other than this is a "known" problem. Either I or the system managed to
> get the root partition back to under 100% but only just... I have looked
> for any large files that might be taking up space but have yet to locate
> anything over 3meg.
> 
> Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts gratefully received.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> INFO:
> FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p10 / 80gig drive
> 
> df was: /dev/ad0s1a   252M   250M -18.5M   108%
> 
> df now:
> Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a   252M   230M   1.8M    99%    /
> /dev/ad0s1g    29G   2.3G    24G     9%    /home
> /dev/ad0s1f   3.0G   1.7G   1.0G    62%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e   3.9G    75M   3.5G     2%    /var
> procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc
> 
> After the cras dmesg was filled with this:
> pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full
> pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full
> 
> 
> 
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The filesystem reserves blocks for the superuser (consult manpage for newfs)

     -m free-space

The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the minimum free
space threshold.  The default value used is defined by MINFREE from
<ufs/ffs/fs.h>, currently 8%.  See tunefs(8) for more details on how to
set this option.


- --Aaron
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