From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 16:12:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EC616A4CF for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:12:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DB043D2D for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:12:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i310CRc03527; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:12:27 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200404010012.i310CRc03527@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: waterb11@yahoo.com (water B) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:12:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20040331235541.52846.qmail@web41413.mail.yahoo.com> from "water B" at Mar 31, 2004 03:55:41 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:12:33 -0000 > > Hi, > > I got a little problem with /usr partition > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 288M 72M 193M 27% / > /dev/da0s1f 15G 13G 535M 96% /usr > /dev/da0s1e 288M 97M 168M 37% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > # du -h /usr > ... > 6.4G /usr > I have deleted some files but it does not restore the used disk. > Does anybody have an idea? Well, if those files are open by some process somewhere or if there are hard links to them, the disk space won't be released until those conditions are altered. So, that could be one reason. ////jerry > > Thanks. >