From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 20:45:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E9F16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:45:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay8-f39.bay8.hotmail.com [64.4.27.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7485643D45 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:45:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from unixtools@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:45:49 -0800 Received: from 203.199.109.165 by by8fd.bay8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:45:48 GMT X-Originating-IP: [203.199.109.165] X-Originating-Email: [unixtools@hotmail.com] X-Sender: unixtools@hotmail.com From: "Sunil Sunder Raj" To: herbert@charizard.tsghelp.com Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:15:48 +0530 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2004 04:45:49.0338 (UTC) FILETIME=[179E4FA0:01C3EC6C] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Free space wierdness X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:45:52 -0000 Hi, A process running on your server might have created a large temporary file which was occupyng space and which got deleted when the server got a reboot. Regards SSR >From: Herbert Wolverson >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Free space wierdness >Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:12:07 -0600 > >I have a system running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. It primarily functions as a >firewall and >router, and is generally pretty lightly loaded (load averages around 0.2). >It >is a low end system (P200, 64mb RAM, 2 gig hard drive), and is generally >stable as a rock. > >The system has drives setup as follows: >/ 256M (UFS) >/usr 1.2gb (UFS+Softupdates) >(/var and /tmp are linked onto /usr/var and /usr/tmp respectively) > >This morning I noticed that the "/" partition was at 108% utilization, >and "df -h" looked like this (approximately): > >Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/ad0s1a 252M 256M -8M 108% / > >Oddly, "du -h -d1 -x" showed only a total of 29Mb used on the partition! >The output looked like this: > >su-2.05b# du -h -d1 -x > 68K ./dev >2.0K ./usr >2.7M ./stand >1.3M ./etc >512B ./proc >4.0M ./bin >542K ./boot >2.0K ./mnt >6.4M ./modules > 30K ./root > 12M ./sbin >4.0K ./tmp >4.0K ./oldvar > 29M . > >When I rebooted the system (without deleting any files), "df -h" showed >the following: > >Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/ad0s1a 252M 29M 203M 12% / > >This is good, since the correct amount of free space now shows, and the >server is back to running perfectly. Can anyone shed any light as to why >this discrepancy happened in the first place? I'd love to know what I can >do to avoid ever having to worry >about this again! > >Thanks, >Herbert Wolverson, >The Turner Stephenson Group, Inc. >http://www.tsghelp.com/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ Marriage? Join BharatMatrimony.com. http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74