Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 15:19:10 +0100 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> Cc: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: so where did the space go? Message-ID: <E15T2Gk-0000Bl-00@roam.psg.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D3A@l04.research.kpn.com> <E15IUj2-0006Hf-00@rip.psg.com> <20010802222556.C28622@toldme.com> <E15Sygd-0002AD-00@roam.psg.com> <20010804123839.P28602@toldme.com>
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>>>> 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) > This says that a process named vmware has /var open. If you want to > free the inodes attached to the files that you have removed, kill > whatever processes may have been writing them. aiiii! do you folk READ the message before responding? look at the first line above. the question is WHY and WHAT vmware is hanging on to. that is a physical disk. randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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