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From: martin@datamodl.demon.co.uk (Martin Hargreaves)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: file system full
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 23:09:55 GMT
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merlin@www.downeast.net wrote:

>	Just started getting this message this morning, occurs about 
>every hour " downeast kernel: uid0 on /tmp: file system full"
>The thing is /tmp is empty... and we have close to 10 megs of free memory 
>as reported by top...
>	No quite sure what this is indicating... anyone seen this or have any
>thoughts ??

Could be something holding an unlinked file open in /tmp growing it to
its limit (far as I remember MFS filesystems have a maximum on their
growth).

What does df say? what does du -s /tmp say? If these both indicate
lots then it likely a dot file/directory, if df says 100% and du says
not then it could well be an open unlinked file owned by some process
on the system.

M.



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