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From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
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Subject: Re: full /var, but minimal content.
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Unless the network is lying to me again, Khairuddin Ghani said: 

> There seems to be a problem with a machine of mine running 4.0-RELEASE. /var
> seems to be completely full, but du(1) only shows around 1% of it being used.

You have a log file that is still open (but removed) from some application.
Once you get the given app to die (or close and re-open it's logs), your
space will magically re-appear.

AlanC


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