Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:13:54 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: rtsit <rtsit@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space? Message-ID: <44obwnbppp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1320690422.80211.YahooMailNeo@web121819.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (rtsit@yahoo.com's message of "Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:27:02 -0800 (PST)") References: <1320687852.11305.YahooMailNeo@web121817.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <44vcqvbylr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <1320690422.80211.YahooMailNeo@web121819.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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rtsit <rtsit@yahoo.com> writes: > I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that any process in > memory that still claimed ownership of an open part of the disk would > release it. There are other things that can cause disk space to seem to disappear, but there is a reason that one is in the FAQ list and the others aren't; it's virtually always the cause when someone reports such a problem on this list. > Didn't work. I'm going to try the other method recommended by Michael > Sierchio -- to reboot in single user mode and try and clear out any > directory structures that could exist that my mount labels could be > hiding.=A0 Thanks for the reply and helpful link. If the mounts are shadowing files, that will certainly hide data use.=20=20 I hope that turns out to be the issue and you get it fixed quickly. > (It was nice to not see a RTFM response, but a helpful link -- it is appr= eciated). I don't agree with you here. My response *was* RTFM, and I don't see anything inherently wrong with that. I'm glad it was helpful. Good luck.
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