From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 9 13:24:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C8B37B401; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15r3Qc-0002qk-00; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:24:38 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f99KObN08765; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:24:37 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:24:37 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Thomas Gravgaard Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: df trouble Message-ID: <20011010092437.D8488@jonc.itouch> References: <1137F4C2EFF6D111B2330060B03C89D6018457E2@REDSRV> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1137F4C2EFF6D111B2330060B03C89D6018457E2@REDSRV>; from fehaar@infopaq.dk on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:14:02PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:14:02PM +0200, Thomas Gravgaard wrote: [.This should be in freebsd-questions, not freebsd-stable.] > I have been having some strange problems with the df command. On some > occasions I have had a filled device and df has reported a usager of > over 100%. When i clean files from the device I free up some space > - or so I think. The df command still reports a diskuse ov > 100%. I > have tried to let it go, with the assumption that it will recover on > some point, but it seems to keep to keep on reporting a wrong disk > usage. What can I do to correct this problem? This is usually 'cos you've got some process keeping an open file on the filesystem, and it's still writing to it. Use "fstat" to find the offending process, and kill it. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message