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Date:      Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:38:39 -0700
From:      dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: so where did the space go?
Message-ID:  <20010804123839.P28602@toldme.com>
In-Reply-To: <E15Sygd-0002AD-00@roam.psg.com>; from randy@psg.com on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:29:39AM %2B0100
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D3A@l04.research.kpn.com> <E15IUj2-0006Hf-00@rip.psg.com> <20010802222556.C28622@toldme.com> <E15Sygd-0002AD-00@roam.psg.com>

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On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:29:39AM +0100, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> it was vmware under linux emul.
> > lsof | grep /var
> 
> # lsof | grep vmware | grep /var
> vmware     489 randy  txt   VREG 116,262148  140673024  16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e)
> vmware     489 randy   11u  VREG 116,262148  140673024  16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e)
> vmware     492 randy  txt   VREG 116,262148  140673024  16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e)
> vmware     492 randy   11u  VREG 116,262148  140673024  16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e)
> vmware     493 randy  txt   VREG 116,262148  140673024  16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e)
> vmware     493 randy   11u  VREG 116,262148  140673024  16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e)

This says that a process named vmware has /var open.  If you want to
free the inodes attached to the files that you have removed, kill
whatever processes may have been writing them.

-danny

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