Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:24:37 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Thomas Gravgaard <fehaar@infopaq.dk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: df trouble Message-ID: <20011010092437.D8488@jonc.itouch> In-Reply-To: <1137F4C2EFF6D111B2330060B03C89D6018457E2@REDSRV>; from fehaar@infopaq.dk on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:14:02PM %2B0200 References: <1137F4C2EFF6D111B2330060B03C89D6018457E2@REDSRV>
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:14:02PM +0200, Thomas Gravgaard wrote:
[.This should be in freebsd-questions, not freebsd-stable.]
> I have been having some strange problems with the df command. On some
> occasions I have had a filled device and df has reported a usager of
> over 100%. When i clean files from the device I free up some space
> - or so I think. The df command still reports a diskuse ov > 100%. I
> have tried to let it go, with the assumption that it will recover on
> some point, but it seems to keep to keep on reporting a wrong disk
> usage. What can I do to correct this problem?
This is usually 'cos you've got some process keeping an open file on
the filesystem, and it's still writing to it. Use "fstat" to find the
offending process, and kill it.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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