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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: Disk full errors
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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 00:33:02 GMT
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In article <davidp-2909951437400001@mac219.admin.biola.edu>, davidp@leonardo.net (David Pisoni) writes:
> Lately our INN has been reporting some strange disk full errors. From the
> daily news report :
>
> Disk usage:
> /dev/sd0e 3220914 2431678 467144 84% /usr/var/spool/news
> /dev/sd1a 1388078 164578 1154096 12% /usr/local/news
>
> Seems like lots of space....
> but then later in the report:
> sort: No space left on device
>
> Okay.... how about the syslog :
> Sep 29 14:15:40 donatello kernel: uid 133 on /: file system full
Seems pretty clear - your root file system is filling up (that's the "/"
bit). Given that sort is complaining, it would appear you have /tmp or /var
as part of the root filesystem and not on a separate filesystem. I've never
configured a system with less than 64MB of /tmp and 64MB of /var. If you're
doing big sorts, you may need something even larger. I believe sort has an
environment variable called TMPDIR you can use to have it put the temp files
somewhere else until you reorganize your partitions.
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
+1 201 915 9381 (voice) +1 201 435-3662 (FAX)