From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 4 11: 2:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from buddha.automagic.org (buddha-nexxia.automagic.org [207.61.141.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3FBD37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 11:02:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@buddha.automagic.org) Received: (qmail 20059 invoked by uid 100); 4 Aug 2001 18:02:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:02:47 -0400 From: Joe Abley To: Randy Bush Cc: dannyman , "Koster, K.J." , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: so where did the space go? Message-ID: <20010804140247.C17715@buddha.home.automagic.org> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D3A@l04.research.kpn.com> <20010802222556.C28622@toldme.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:29:39AM +0100, Randy Bush wrote: > >> it was vmware under linux emul. > > lsof | grep /var > > # lsof | grep vmware | grep /var > vmware 489 randy txt VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 489 randy 11u VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 492 randy txt VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 492 randy 11u VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 493 randy txt VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 493 randy 11u VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > > not a lot of help, or i am not seeing the clue Assuming $2 are process numbers [1], I think you may find killing those processes will release the space. [1] I don't have lsof installed here. ps will surely tell you. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message