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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: File System Full?
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Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 20:25:41 GMT
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In article <32025542.4704@vfr.interceptor.com>, "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com> writes:
> Aug 2 12:12:58 milam root: > uid 0 on /: file system full
>
> but if I run a df, I get:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a 9727 6054 3186 66% /
> /dev/sd0h 636135 397423 206905 66% /usr
> /dev/sd1a 4052972 2921337 928986 76% /public
>
> I just now rmdir'd /tmp and symlinked it to /usr/tmp and rebooted, but
> that's not solving the problem. I'm not getting any filesystem errors
> from fsck, so basically, I'm lost at this point.
Might be /var/tmp. I think your root partition is a bit small, especially
as /tmp and /var are on there as well. I'd go with a minimum of 32MB (if
/tmp and /var are on it) or 16MB otherwise. Here's the way I have one of my
systems laid out - it's pretty typical:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 63535 14246 46112 24% /
mfs:30 15871 1 15076 0% /tmp
/dev/sd0d 254191 30181 211300 12% /var
/dev/sd0e 254191 4893 236588 2% /tmp
/dev/sd0h 1334451 955760 311968 75% /usr
/dev/sd1a 63535 5590 54768 9% /backroot
/dev/sd1d 595535 138569 427189 24% /news
/dev/sd1h 1246819 225270 959208 19% /sysprog
/dev/sd2a 63535 5620 54738 9% /backroot2
/dev/sd2d 508399 228763 254216 47% /news/novdata
/dev/sd2g 826036 1550 783184 0% /www
/dev/sd2h 508399 115761 367218 24% /spare
/dev/sd3a 2011507 893099 1017832 47% /news/spool
/dev/sd4a 2010994 944178 966266 49% /news/spool/.0
spcvxa:/user1 1953955 1536399 417556 79% /user1
spcvxa:/user2 1953955 1649921 304034 84% /user2
spcvxa:/user4 1953955 1344749 609206 69% /user4
spcvxa:/user8 1015852 938710 77142 92% /user8
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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