From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 30 09:43:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20012 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.theonlynet.com ([207.201.125.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19991 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rricci@theonlynet.com) Received: from deepthought (port48.slc.celestar.com [207.201.73.79] (may be forged)) by ns2.theonlynet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA00413 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:43:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199806301643.KAA00413@ns2.theonlynet.com> From: "Robert Ricci" Organization: The Only Net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:42:03 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Full filesystems Reply-to: rricci@theonlynet.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (Please CC: me, as I am not subscribed to this list) The other day, I accidentally filled up my /var filesystem, causing sendmail to start refusing connections and other fun problems. After removing a ~50MB file, `df` still showed the file system as being past full. Doing a `du -k` in /var showed that I had about 50MB used on this 100MB filesystem, but df still reported 100MB used. Even after killing sendmail and restarting it, it still believed /var was full and refused connections. Finally, I rebooted the machine, and everything began to function correctly. df now reports 50MB used on /var. Short of rebooting, what can I do to make programs recognize that the filesystem is no longer full? BTW: This machine is running 2.2.1: has this been fixed in a more recent release? *------------------------------------------------------------- * Robert Ricci - The Only Net / Intermountain Internet Support * Support Email: support@theonlynet.com * Personal: rricci@theonlynet.com *------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message