Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 19:43:21 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Jeff Blaufuss <Jeff_Blaufuss@ndsu.nodak.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var filesystem filling up when not full Message-ID: <20010520194321.A11062@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3B08026A.9996E11D@ndsu.nodak.edu>; from Jeff_Blaufuss@ndsu.nodak.edu on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:44:10PM -0500 References: <3B08026A.9996E11D@ndsu.nodak.edu>
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On Sun 2001-05-20 (12:44), Jeff Blaufuss wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE on one of my systems, and I am having > problems with the /var filesystem filling up. When I run du says that > it has 2.5MB of files in it, right now, when I run df, it says that /var > is 39% full (it is a 50MB filesystem). What's going on? It's filled up > twice before and it takes a reboot to get a more appropriate answer from > df. Any help I get will be appreciated. > > uname output: > FreeBSD durandal.localnet 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #1: Fri Mar 2 > 23:15:20 CST 2001 Most likely you tried deleting a large log file, and it's still held open by a process, most likely syslogd. killall -HUP syslogd will solve that. Less likely, it may be softupdates, in which case 'sync; sync; sync;' would slowly make it free up disk space. But I doubt that's the case. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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