Date: 09 Jul 2003 15:27:38 +0000 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var error Message-ID: <1057764457.1862.4.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <87fzlfhghb.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> References: <20030709082956.61490.qmail@web42004.mail.yahoo.com> <1057739810.6430.3.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> <87fzlfhghb.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 15:22, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-09T08:36:50Z, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> writes: > > Install sysutils/lsof and use it to find what program has a deleted file > > open on /var; kill that program, and the space will be reclaimed. > > I see that advice a lot. Is lsof inherently superior to `fstat' in the base > system? fstat (everyone else who has this calls it "fuser", so I didn't even know it was there) doesn't seem to provide much information; lsof gives you enough to have a decent chance of identifying the file in question, which is problematic when it doesn't have a name.... -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]
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