[PC-BSD Testing] /var partition easily gets filled up

[Kris Moore]

On 04/08/2012 12:05, claive alvin Acedilla wrote:
> I can see the /var/tmp/instmp.* files when I issue du -h /var command
> from root prompt.
>

Ok, I did some checking and it looks like those dirs are created by the
pkg_add command in FreeBSD, which is used by the meta-pkg manager.
Usually they are supposed to be cleaned up after pkg_add finishes. Have
you had any cases where the system crashed, or you manually killed the
system package manager?

> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:48 PM, claive alvin Acedilla
> <cabpacedilla at gmail.com <mailto:cabpacedilla at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Kris,
>
>     I did a clean reinstallation of PCBSD 9.0 release to my primary
>     partition then install apps from AppCafe and install xfce and kde
>     from System Packages.
>
>
>     On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org
>     <mailto:kris at pcbsd.org>> wrote:
>
>         On 04/02/2012 15:28, claive alvin Acedilla wrote:
>         > Hi Kris
>         >
>         > Attached is my new /var.
>         > Still i have those /var/tmp/instmp.* files.
>         > I can see them when issue du command from root prompt.
>         >
>
>         When did these files come back? I.E. did you rm -rf
>         /var/tmp/instmp.*
>         and reboot? At what point did they show up again? Have you
>         tweaked or
>         customized this system in any way?
>
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>         PC-BSD Software
>         iXsystems
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