/var : write failed, filesystem is full

c9 — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:48:08 +0800

Hi guys,

It seems that /var is always full. I can't seem compile anything else. Sigh.. Below is the detail.

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webtv# uname -a
FreeBSD *.*.gov.my 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

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webtv# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 248M 246M -18M 108% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/da0s1e 248M 14K 228M 0% /tmp
/dev/da0s1f 32G 19G 9.9G 66% /usr
/dev/da0s1d 248M 248M -20M 109% /var

The most taken disk space are from these:

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webtv# du -h /var
225M ./log
16M ./spool
16M ./spool/clientmqueue
2.1M ./db
4.0K ./crash
4.0K ./cron
4.0K ./msgs
4.0K ./named/var/run
4.0K ./spool/output
4.0K ./tmp/etc/gnats
4.5M ./mail

So, I did try to overcome these by trying to symlink it to home directory. Unfortunately I can't rename the log folder into anything else. Below is how I did.

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webtv# su
webtv# mkdir -p /home/var.log
webtv# cp -Rp log /home/var.log
webtv# mv log oldlog
mv: rename log to oldlog: Operation not permitted

Was it because file permission error? Or something is actually running in the background? I did stop syslogd and all. Still, it didn't work. I can't run as single user as I'm remotely connected to the server. The server is in Melaka.

So, I'm hoping if there's a workaround to this. Be it how to force rename or how to solve this /var issue. Thanks.

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