Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:03:15 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Simas Cepaitis <Simas@5ci.lt> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20020315170315.GF11203@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <E2D6558ABE18D4119E720060084C966D02246478@AURORA> References: <E2D6558ABE18D4119E720060084C966D02246478@AURORA>
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On 2002-03-15 09:16, Simas Cepaitis wrote: > Hello, > > Strange thing happened to one of my 4.5-STABLE servers > last night and i can't think what it was. Log was filled > with messages like > > > Mar 15 03:04:03 snow /kernel: pid 77580 (httpd), uid 0 on /var: file > system full > > du on /var showed 7.4M used, but df output was > > /dev/da0s1e 992M 992M -79.0M 109% /var Some daemon or other runaway process keeping open a file in /var :) When a program has opened a file, and you delete the file, then the disk space doesn't really get freed until that program dies. This is explained in more detail in the FAQ at http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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