Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:39:54 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var error Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0307091737270.19920-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <87fzlfhghb.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-09T08:36:50Z, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> writes: > > > Install sysutils/lsof and use it to find what program has a deleted file > > open on /var; kill that program, and the space will be reclaimed. > > I see that advice a lot. Is lsof inherently superior to `fstat' in the base > system? You don't _need_ lsof, it just ties things neatly together for you. If you don't have lsof (for whatever reason), you can scan down /var looking for "missing" open inodes - eg, the script at http://ioctl.org/unix/scripts/openfiles does that. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ...and then three milkmaids turned up (to the delight and delactation of the crowd).
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