Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:35:00 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Colin Farley <Colin.Farley@ecarecenters.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free space reported incorrectly Message-ID: <20051214163500.GA18296@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <OF3F4C3057.10C651D9-ON862570D7.00522CC6-862570D7.00543398@ecarecenters.com> References: <OF3F4C3057.10C651D9-ON862570D7.00522CC6-862570D7.00543398@ecarecenters.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 14), Colin Farley said: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on a couple of production mail > relays/web servers. Today I noticed that one had a lot more space in > /var used. I figured that a log was growing and started to > investigate. After running du -h /var and seeing it come up with a > total usage much less than what df -h reports I decided to run fsck > /var. This is the output I get: > > ** /dev/da1s1f (NO WRITE) Don't trust any fsck output on a mounted filessytem. You probably have some logfiles that got manually rotated or deleted (i.e. not via newsyslog), and syslogd was never told to close&reopen the logfile. Run "lsof +L1" (lsof is in ports) to find the offending processes and restart them. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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