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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:24:24 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4r_Thoren?= <t98pth@student.bth.se>
To:        Marius Kirschner <marius@agoron.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: disk free in /var
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104171621180.19841-100000@beholder.rby.hk-r.se>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBKGPPOLDBPJPLMKDIKECMEIAA.marius@agoron.com>

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I did make a mistake by using the default values... but the real question
was howcome df shows that 20 MB is used and du shows 113 KB is used.

/P=E4r


On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Marius Kirschner wrote:

> Yes, I've made the same mistake using the default partition table on a
> recent 4.2 installation.  Considering that the /mail and /log directories
> are in /var I don't understand why it defaults to 20MB?!  Anyway, in my c=
ase
> no big harm was done as I just wanted to get my feet wet with FreeBSD (I'=
m
> coming from BSDi) and basically I'm going to wipe everything and install =
4.3
> when it's out.
>=20
> ---Marius
>=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of P=E4r Thoren
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:23 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: disk free in /var
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a problem with the /var partition. I used the default partiontab=
le
> > when I installed fbsd. Thats is 20 MB in /var
> >
> > 'df' list:
> >
> > Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/da0s1a     49583    34348    11269    75%    /
> > /dev/da0s1f   8361849  1278255  6414647    17%    /usr
> > /dev/da0s1e     19815    18140       90   100%    /var
> > procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
> >
> > as you can see /var i full.
> > but 'du -d1 /var' lists:
> >
> > 2=09/var/account
> > 3=09/var/at
> > 11=09/var/backups
> > 2=09/var/crash
> > 3=09/var/cron
> > 2=09/var/msgs
> > 1=09/var/preserve
> > 49=09/var/run
> > 1=09/var/rwho
> > 16=09/var/spool
> > 2=09/var/tmp
> > 20=09/var/yp
> > 113=09/var/
> >
> > 113 Kbyte in use????? where did the rest go? This give med problems wit=
h
> > mail not being delivered.
> >
> > /P=E4r
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>=20
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