[ale] news disk full errors

[jknapka at mindspring.com (Joe)]

ZOT write:

>Filesystem  1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/sda2   232989     171623     49334    78%      /
>/dev/sda3   653495      79578    536541   13%     /usr/lib/news
>/dev/sdb1   3976015        15   3763368    0%     /var/spool/news
>                     ^^     ^^^  ^^^
>
>A file system on a 1.2.8 Slackware system seems to be bad.  It is 
>the news server (Surprise huh?) and has gone to lunch.  I am 
>curious as to the above df output since it lists plenty avaiable, 
>but no capacity?

Note that "capacity" is the amount of space *used*; confirm this
by comparing the numbers for the other fs's. So 0% capacity is
a (virtually) empty filesystem.

I have no idea what your real problem is. Can other programs read
and write that fs? Can you write a simple program that just
reads and writes lots of data to that fs, and run it for awhile?
Might be informative.

- Joe