From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 15:12:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762A6155F5 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA15933; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:11:22 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:11:22 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Ben Williams Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: /var slice wierdness In-Reply-To: <2147.990907@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ben Williams wrote: > I also have another box (a server) that is having some serious > wierdness in the /var slice. This was only my second FreeBSD install > and I went with the defaults for slice sizes which has been fine up > until about a week ago when I noticed /var was nearly full, but a `du -x | sort -n` doesn't show me anything hoggging all my space > up. Here is what I have: It's very likely that there's a process holding a file open on /var that doesn't appear on the directory listings. (ie process opens a file on /var/tmp, then unlinks it). Only when the process dies does the filespace it consumes get released. Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message