Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:07:13 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1.3G of my /var missing Message-ID: <471EEF21.5010800@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20071024065725.GA89715@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <471EE5BE.5080604@gmx.de> <20071024065725.GA89715@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:27:10AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >> df -h reports that on /var 1.5G of 1.9G are used and only 237M of free space >> remain. >> >> However doing a >> du -hd 1 /var >> >> and summing up the results I only get to less than 200M of used space, so >> there are 1.3G unaccounted for. fsck in single user mode does not recognize a >> problem. > > Try looking at tunefs(8), particularly the -m flag. That amount of > space is kept for root (the user). > As in most cases the problem was sitting between the chair and the keyboard. I simply overlooked the G when I read that /var/log contained 1.3G of data. I'm sorry for wasting the precious time of those who read or even replied with my stupidity.
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