From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 0:42:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3D21568F for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 00:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990908074201.XNTW16271.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE>; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 00:42:01 -0700 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 03:33:49 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <2148.990908@home.com> To: Jonathan Chen Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re[2]: /var slice wierdness In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan, Thank you VERY much for the info. I tried HUP'ing all my daemons to get whoever was holding a now-non-existent fd open to release it but that didn't work so I bounced the server and when it came back up my df reported that I had less than 20% used in /var. TAF -- Ben On or about Tuesday, September 07, 1999, sometime around 6:11:22 PM, you said: JC> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ben Williams wrote: >> I also have another box (a server) that is having some serious >> wierdness in the /var slice. This was only my second FreeBSD install >> and I went with the defaults for slice sizes which has been fine up >> until about a week ago when I noticed /var was nearly full, but a `du -x | sort -n` doesn't show me anything hoggging all my space >> up. Here is what I have: JC> It's very likely that there's a process holding a file open on /var JC> that doesn't appear on the directory listings. (ie process opens JC> a file on /var/tmp, then unlinks it). Only when the process dies JC> does the filespace it consumes get released. JC> Jonathan Chen JC> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JC> "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" JC> - Edmond Blackadder III JC> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org JC> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message