Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:03:24 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var with capacity -1% Message-ID: <20080402070324.GA7768@svzserv.kemerovo.su> In-Reply-To: <20080402064116.GD26918@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20080401131752.GA3674@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <200804020603.m32639Zw025893@barnetv.cc.uit.no> <20080402064116.GD26918@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:41:16PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > 2) Files which are open (have active file descriptors associated with them) > > > on /var before it filled may be causing this. fstat may help you here. > > But /var is not full. It is _more_ than empty. > > 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 > process the space will be freed up. "lsof +aL1 <file_system>" shows unlinked open files on the specified file system (quoting its man page). Eugene Grosbein
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