[Wylug-help] Filesytem problem

GaryStainburngary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk GaryStainburngary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:51:08 +0100


-----Original Message-----
From:	Nik Jewell [SMTP:L.N.Jewell@leeds.ac.uk]
Sent:	Tuesday, September 05, 2000 10:39 AM
To:	wylug-help@wylug.org.uk
Subject:	[Wylug-help] Filesytem problem

>Hi
>
>I'm suffering a strange problem on one of my boxes.  This excerpt from the boot
>log shows services not starting due to no space on /var:
[logsnip]
>However, df reports the following:
>
>[nik@ltsn19-nj1 nik]$ df /dev/hda11
>Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda11              202220     78766    113014  41% /var 
>
>I've checked the file system for errors but none show up.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>
>Nik

Here's a stab in the dark for you!!

I once got disk full errors when I really had permissions problems.
It won't hurt to check the directory modes and owners.

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