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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:36:21 -0400
From:      Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
To:        Khairuddin Ghani <abdulgha@usc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: full /var, but minimal content.
Message-ID:  <20000908133621.B29315@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <DEEPJPCNCILOOFPCLOHDMEIFCEAA.abdulgha@usc.edu>; from abdulgha@usc.edu on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:31:31AM -0700
References:  <DEEPJPCNCILOOFPCLOHDMEIFCEAA.abdulgha@usc.edu>

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Unless the network is lying to me again, Khairuddin Ghani said: 

> There seems to be a problem with a machine of mine running 4.0-RELEASE. /var
> seems to be completely full, but du(1) only shows around 1% of it being used.

You have a log file that is still open (but removed) from some application.
Once you get the given app to die (or close and re-open it's logs), your
space will magically re-appear.

AlanC


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