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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.

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