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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.oz.au!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!hookup!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.bawue.de!luva.lb.bawue.de!luva.lb.bawue.de!not-for-mail From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Disk full errors Date: 30 Sep 1995 21:15:04 +0100 Organization: private BSD/OS site Lines: 37 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <44k8g8$oo7@luva.lb.bawue.de> References: <davidp-2909951437400001@mac219.admin.biola.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: luva.lb.bawue.de Keywords: inn news bsdi Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nntp:16164 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1011 >I am running INN on a BSDI 2.0 system. >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 Your partition where /tmp is, is full (inn sorts its history file and does other things in /tmp). You can however invoke news.daily telling it to use different tmp dirs. > >Okay.... how about the syslog : > >Sep 29 14:15:40 donatello kernel: uid 133 on /: file system full > >(uid 133 is user 'news') - this is happening all the time, at least >several times a day. But the news partitions have plenty of space... > >Any ideas? >+--------------------------------------------------------------+ >| David Pisoni davidp@leonardo.net | >| System Administrator david@isaac.biola.edu | >| Leonardo Internet http://www.ac.biola.edu/~david | >+--------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Michael Giegerich, E-Mail: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de, Voice: +49 7144 39337