From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 8: 1:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F2237B479; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:01:05 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13oS2Q-0005uw-00; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:00:22 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:00:22 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Eric Brueggmann Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: du/df In-Reply-To: <20001025000210.A2828@snoopie.yi.org> 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 Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Eric Brueggmann wrote: > Sorry for the cross post. I was wondering what could cause this: > > # du -hc /var | grep total > 15M total > # df -h /var > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad3s2e 483M 101M 343M 23% /var Either softupdates (but only briefly). More likely, a rotated/deleted log file that's still being held open by a process. Try running openfiles /var (just a shell script - you can get it at http://tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmjg/unix/scripts/openfiles ) ...or get lsof. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Goedel would be proud - I'm both inconsistent _and_ incomplete. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message