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Date:      Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:41:28 -0400
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        jose@hostarica.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bugs with disk space
Message-ID:  <40C74BC8.8040906@mitre.org>
In-Reply-To: <1086798813.85952.7.camel@jose.hostarica.net>
References:  <1086798813.85952.7.camel@jose.hostarica.net>

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Jose Hidalgo Herrera wrote:
> There is something wrong here:
> 
> srv0:~# uname -r 
> 4.9-RELEASE-p4
> 
> srv0:~# df -hi /
> Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a   126M   125M  -8.9M   108%    1364 14890    8%   /
> 
> srv0:~# du -shx /
>  36M    /
> 
> The operating system complains about free space, but I'm only using 36M,
> while the df says that I'm using 125M, the inodes are not the problem.

You probably have programs accessing files on / that have been unlinked. 
  Once the process terminates (or closes the file descriptor) you will 
get your space back.  If you deleted a large temp file or log file to 
free up space, try restarting the process that created the temp/log file.

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   \  |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen        jandrese@mitre.org
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