From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 10:54:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC5B37B400 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g06IsVx02162; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:54:31 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201061854.g06IsVx02162@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: Alban Hertroys , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contradictory information? In-Reply-To: <09be72711140612FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 11:54:31 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 09:10:53 -0500 "Brian T.Schellenberger" wrote: +------------------ | On Sunday 06 January 2002 08:54 am, Alban Hertroys wrote: | > For some reason I recently got alert-mails that my /var filesystem was | > full, while there was only about 15MB of data on it. The filesystem is | > 60MB, so that should fit quite easily. | > | > I'm almost nearing the alert-mail situation again, so I'd appreciate if | > someone could tell me what is going on here... | | The files system rules cause the file not to be "really" deleted while the | process is still running, and the effect is like that on MVS when a file | exists but is not catalogued (hmmm . . . I bet MVS analogies aren't very | common on this list, are they?): the file is out there on the disk, taking | up space, but you can't find it via the filesystem tools. +------------------ The analogy is exactly right. The blocks are allocated in the inode list but are not referenced in any directory. As you say in your posting the way to fix this is to kill the offending process or processes. The standard utility to find these processes is called fstat(1) and it ships with the base install. Good luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message