Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:23:50 -0400 From: jamgill <jamgill@gmail.com> To: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reclaiming /var capacity? Message-ID: <9da4e0e90903111223j7549c28ak16c2d14739507992@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090311190422.GA71253@darklight.homeunix.org> References: <9da4e0e90903111130o71de8b54xc417b51c1aaf31dd@mail.gmail.com> <20090311190422.GA71253@darklight.homeunix.org>
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:30:08PM -0400, j. wrote: > > Where did my capacity go and how can I get it back? > > > > deathray# du -sh /var > > 70M /var > > > > > > deathray# df -h /var > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/da0d 248M 214M 15M 94% /var > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > --j. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF > > Thanks, Yuri. According to the FAQ you linked, wouldn't a good smattering of "sync ; sync ; sync ; sync ; sync" cause the the two to reflect the sizes accurately? This problem has been going on for some time now, so I have more than exceeded the recommendation to "wait up to 30 seconds". It does appear that softupdates are on, if that matters. deathray# dumpfs /var | grep -i soft flags soft-updates As the FAQ and Neal's response point out, this is where logs go, but I have cleaned out logs several times over the last few months, so that doesn't appear to be the problem: deathray# du -sh /var/log 1.5M /var/log I am also not sure what to make of the 5% inode usage on this volume: deathray# df -hi /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/da0d 248M 214M 15M 94% 1720 31302 5% /var --j.
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