Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:05:51 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: Craig Johnston <caj@praline.no.neosoft.com> Cc: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: full file system: df and du disagree - why? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971114170529.14249M-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.971114152907.13922C-100000@praline.no.neosoft.com>
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On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Craig Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Charles Owens wrote:
>
> > A 'du -ks /var' showed that only 11 out of 60 megs were in use, so I
> > _knew_ that there was plenty of free space. But, df didn't think so, and
> > the kernel apparantly didn't think so either, as writes to /var still
> > produced a filesystem full error.
>
> Some process has a file that has been rm'ed open, likely. The file is not
> actually deleted until the last process that has it open closes it. Du will
> report the space as unused, df will report correctly.
>
> Craig A. Johnston, Applications Engineer, NeoSoft, Inc.
> caj@neosoft.com phone:(504)539 9235 fax:(504)539 9236
Thanks! Could you define "rm'd open" ?
Thanks,
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