Insufficient system storage

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Mar 19 03:33:39 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 21:54 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 18 March 2006 20:00, Tom Spec wrote:
> > If /tmp gets full that would definitely cause problems
> > with your system.
> >
> > What is the output of df?
> >
> > If /tmp is 100% full you can either go in there and
> > delete stuff, or make it bigger.
> 
> /tmp is under /, and there is 1.6GB free.  I think that I had just got 
> something into a loop so that it was filling up with temporary space.  I had 
> to reboot, and everything's fine now.  Just a pebcak, I think.
> 
What is your filesystem structure?
/tmp being part of / can be a _bad thing_ in cases as you just saw.

Only 1.6GiB of free space in / would not be a bad thing if / is small
and <70% used.  OTOH, if / is a large partition and usage is in the 90%+
range that is not a good thing.
 
> Anne
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