Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:31:25 GMT From: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> To: jerrymc@msu.edu, hartleigh.burton@destra.com, colin@ips.gov.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a monster stole my / Message-ID: <20080507.033125.29340.1@webmail07.dca.untd.com>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:34:54 -0400 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +1000, Hartleigh Burton wrote: >> Hiya! >> = >> I have a problem with / currently being at 108% capacity. I have foun= d = >> a previous thread in the archives which explains a few questions but = I = >> can't find what is taking up all the additional space. At best withou= t = >> destroying what I still do not understand I can manage to get / to = >> about 101% capacity. > oI see you have used du. I usually do = > cd / > du -sk * > Since the 'h switches between K, G, M, I find it a little harder > to eyeball than picking just one of K, M or G. I also find the -s > more useful in a general situation than -dn since it gives a = > good general summary. > The one thing I can think of would be some file that has been rm-ed > but not released by some process. The space will still stay allocate= d > until the file is released by all processes. A reboot can help that.= > If reboot doesn't free anything up, then you have some serious digging= > to do. Your / file system is quite large and you have most of the > usually culprits moved somewhere else. So, you should not need = > anywhere near that much disk for /. The arithmetic is being done by a computer program which must have maxim= um sizes set for numbers (e.g., long [4 bytes], maybe ulong , etc.), no= t by a human being who can adjust for the size of the data (though he ma= y make other mistakes). Try to get the raw data on which the arithmetic= is done to see if the error may be there, and you could point to a prog= ram needing a correction (which may not be possible unless one goes to f= loating point which causes other problems)
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