Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:17:03 +0200 From: Ingeborg Hellemo <Ingeborg.Hellemo@cc.uit.no> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var with capacity -1% Message-ID: <200804020717.m327H3qm028023@barnetv.cc.uit.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:03:24 %2B0800." <20080402070324.GA7768@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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eugen@kuzbass.ru said: > > It is possible to have files that are open and held by processes on > > the filesystem that are no longer listed. If you kill the offending L > process the space will be freed up. > > "lsof +aL1 <file_system>" shows unlinked open files on the specified file > system (quoting its man page). If you read my first mail you will see that this is not a case of overfull /var (101% used) and a need to free space. Something is wrong with either the filesystem or df(1) since it claims that I am using a negative amount of disk-blocks. There are no unlinked open files on /var, and I fail to understand how they could have explained the output of df(1) --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- ingeborg@cc.uit.no (Univ. of Tromsø, Norway)
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