Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 10:48:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> Subject: Re: How to recover disk space after "filesystem full" Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905221044090.55458@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> In-Reply-To: <4A16D08D.1000900@ibctech.ca> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905220853530.55458@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> <4A16D08D.1000900@ibctech.ca>
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On Fri, 22 May 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Luke Dean wrote: >> I ended up rebooting the box. >> >> Was there any other possible solution I could've tried? > > You have to restart the service that was holding the log file(s) open. > The system does not release the space while an application is 'using' > the file, even after it's been deleted. Oh yeah! I forgot. I've got it configured to use syslogd to handle the dhcp logging, so I probably just needed to restart that one. I probably could've left dhcpd running. This kind of emergency always seems to happen before I get a chance to make coffee. Thank you.
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