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Article #72HELP!: Filesystem Full
From: webb
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1987 20:14
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1987 20:14
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I am having trouble with a VAX 11/730 running 4.2BSD UNIX. A couple of days
ago I was running a process in the background that directed its (very verbose)
output into a file in the /usr partition. Well, after a bit, the message
`/usr:file system is full' began to appear on the console. Unthinkingly, I
unlinked the file (with rm -f), expecting the process to die as it lost its
standard output pointer, and the disk space to be freed in the process.
This is not what happened. I had to kill the process myself, and my /usr
partition is still 96-100% full. I will not describe the problems this causes.
I have tried using fsck, both with the -p option and without it, to get rid
of this disk space, but to no avail. I am not even sure that the problem lies
with the file I unlinked while it was still being written into, but that is
my best guess, since /usr was about 34% full before I ran this process, and I am
the only one who uses this machine. Does anyone have any suggestions on how
I can identify the source of the problem and fix it? I have tried searching
/usr for large files, and the only ones I found definitely belonged there.
Thanks in advance.
Peter Webb.
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