Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:12:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@elasticpath.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Soft-updates & du & df Message-ID: <20050713211201.GC75904@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1121288487.25124.83.camel@hwijbenga.mspace.merchantspace.com> References: <1121288487.25124.83.camel@hwijbenga.mspace.merchantspace.com>
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In the last episode (Jul 13), Hilco Wijbenga said: > I've taken over the administration of a FreeBSD box and now I've run > into a problem that I could not solve by means of Google or the > FreeBSD mailinglist archives. I am quite familiar with (Gentoo) > GNU/Linux but a complete newbie when it comes to FreeBSD. > > While I was doing some work I got an error about a device being full. > As it turned out /var was completely full. Not a big problem because > there were a few very big log files that I could throw away. Problem > solved? Apparently not because > > root@svn[var]# df -h /var > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad2s1d 248M 246M -18M 108% /var > > even though > > root@svn[var]# du -hs /var > 43M /var > > Shouldn't du and df roughly agree on the amount that's used/available? You probably have some deleted logfiles that are still held open by processes. Run "lsof +L1 -a /var" to list the files and the processes (you may need to install lsof from ports). Kill and restart the offending processes and your freespace should go back to normal. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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