/tmp filesystem used

[ruaoh]

I just upgraded to 7.2 from 6.2 and noticed /tmp is using -984K

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 496M 225M 231M 49% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ad0s1e 496M -984K 457M -0% /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f 17G 3.9G 11G 25% /usr
/dev/ad0s1d 1.2G 194M 934M 17% /var

Does this need to be corrected? If so, how?

Thanks.

 

[fronclynne]

You might try fsck(8), though you may have to have /tmp unmounted, which may require killing some daemons, or dropping into single user mode.

 

[vivek]

Go to a single user mode. Delete all files from /tmp and run fsck. Make sure following exists in /etc/rc.conf:

clear_tmp_enable="YES"

Also consider daily_clean_tmps_enable="YES" in /etc/periodic.conf, which will enable a daily job to clean out old files from temporary directories. Thus, resulting avoiding such a problem.

 

[ruaoh]

fsck worked.

Thank you both for your help.