Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:17:45 +0100 From: "Clayton Milos" <clay@milos.co.za> To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1.3G of my /var missing Message-ID: <00a701c8160d$fb78e810$0264a8c0@claylaptop> References: <471EE5BE.5080604@gmx.de><20071024065725.GA89715@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <471EEF21.5010800@gmx.de>
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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. Sounds like you need to make a few entries in /etc/newsyslog First thing I do when I add any new apps is give their logs a life cycle. All too quickly logs become bulky and you find /var holding it's breath. -Clay
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