From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 07:17:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECED81065679 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Ingeborg.Hellemo@cc.uit.no) Received: from mux2.uit.no (mux2.uit.no [129.242.5.252]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6975D8FC23 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:17:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Ingeborg.Hellemo@cc.uit.no) Received: from flode.cc.uit.no (flode.cc.uit.no [129.242.6.250]) by mux2.uit.no (8.13.8/8.13.6/Mux) with ESMTP id m327H3Ap053335 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:17:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from barnetv.cc.uit.no (barnetv.cc.uit.no [129.242.6.226]) by flode.cc.uit.no (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m327HFDB065233; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:17:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ingeborg@cc.uit.no) Received: from barnetv.cc.uit.no (localhost.cc.uit.no [127.0.0.1]) by barnetv.cc.uit.no (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m327H3qm028023; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:17:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ingeborg@barnetv.cc.uit.no) Message-Id: <200804020717.m327H3qm028023@barnetv.cc.uit.no> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Eugene Grosbein In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:03:24 +0800." <20080402070324.GA7768@svzserv.kemerovo.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:17:03 +0200 From: Ingeborg Hellemo X-Virus-Scanned: : ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 129.242.5.252 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var with capacity -1% X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:17:11 -0000 eugen@kuzbass.ru said: > > It is possible to have files that are open and held by processes on > > the filesystem that are no longer listed. If you kill the offending L > process the space will be freed up. > > "lsof +aL1 " shows unlinked open files on the specified file > system (quoting its man page). If you read my first mail you will see that this is not a case of overfull /var (101% used) and a need to free space. Something is wrong with either the filesystem or df(1) since it claims that I am using a negative amount of disk-blocks. There are no unlinked open files on /var, and I fail to understand how they could have explained the output of df(1) --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- ingeborg@cc.uit.no (Univ. of Tromsø, Norway)