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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:21:15 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Maxim Konovalov <maxim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jamie Heckford <jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk>
Cc:        Naga Suresh B <torvalds@addr.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: disk running out of space
Message-ID:  <20021010141810.X22800-100000@news1.macomnet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <007301c27045$9b32fea0$3264a8c0@BONG>
References:  <01a201c27042$51fe54d0$9600a8c0@blraddrcom> <20021010135051.Q16902-100000@news1.macomnet.ru> <01e401c27044$67b8da50$9600a8c0@blraddrcom> <007301c27045$9b32fea0$3264a8c0@BONG>

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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF

"When a program is using a file, and you delete the file, the file is
not really removed from the filesystem until the program stops using
it."

SIGHUP tells syslogd to reopen logfiles, apachectl restart does the
same for apache.

It's really belongs to -questions.

On 14:12+0400, Oct 10, 2002, Jamie Heckford wrote:

> hmmmm - could possibly be your log files if there going into /var
> ..... could only be explained if apache is cleaning the logs on a
> restart somehow.
>
> btw, why would sending syslogd a SIGHUP help just out or curiosity?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Naga Suresh B" <torvalds@addr.com>
> To: "Maxim Konovalov" <maxim@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Cc: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: disk running out of space
>
>
> > Thank you for your suggestion I restarted apache on my server my df -h is
> > giving
> >
> > Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s2a   9.6G   1.0G   7.8G    12%    /
> > /dev/ad2s1e    55G    39G    11G    77%    /data
> > /dev/ad0s1e   9.6G   2.0K   8.8G     0%    /data2
> > /dev/ad0s3e    26G   1.0G    23G     4%    /data3
> > /dev/ad0s2e   9.6G   1.9G   6.9G    22%    /usr
> > procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc
> >
> > What might be the problem??? In future how can I overcome this type of
> > problems without restarting the service.
> >
> > Suresh
[...]

-- 
Maxim Konovalov, maxim@FreeBSD.org



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