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>>>> 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.

aiiii!  do you folk READ the message before responding?  look at the first
line above.

the question is WHY and WHAT vmware is hanging on to.  that is a physical
disk.

randy

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