From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 4 12:36:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dell.dannyland.org (dell.dannyland.org [64.81.36.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A25337B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: by dell.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 37C215C2D; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:38:39 -0700 From: dannyman To: Randy Bush Cc: "Koster, K.J." , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: so where did the space go? Message-ID: <20010804123839.P28602@toldme.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D3A@l04.research.kpn.com> <20010802222556.C28622@toldme.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from randy@psg.com on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:29:39AM +0100 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:29:39AM +0100, Randy Bush wrote: > >> it was vmware under linux emul. > > lsof | grep /var > > # lsof | grep vmware | grep /var > vmware 489 randy txt VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 489 randy 11u VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 492 randy txt VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 492 randy 11u VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 493 randy txt VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) > vmware 493 randy 11u VREG 116,262148 140673024 16 /var (/dev/ad0s3e) This says that a process named vmware has /var open. If you want to free the inodes attached to the files that you have removed, kill whatever processes may have been writing them. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message