From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 17:43:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED91316A4EE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:43:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-mclean.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23FDC43D2D for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:43:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-mclean.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-mclean.mitre.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i59HlVc09790 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:47:32 -0400 Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtp-mclean.mitre.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i59HlTH09707; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:47:29 -0400 Received: from mm112324-2k.mitre.org (128.29.3.25) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 3140208; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:41:22 -0400 Message-ID: <40C74BC8.8040906@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:41:28 -0400 From: Jason Andresen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jose@hostarica.com References: <1086798813.85952.7.camel@jose.hostarica.net> In-Reply-To: <1086798813.85952.7.camel@jose.hostarica.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugs with disk space X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:43:06 -0000 Jose Hidalgo Herrera wrote: > There is something wrong here: > > srv0:~# uname -r > 4.9-RELEASE-p4 > > srv0:~# df -hi / > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 126M 125M -8.9M 108% 1364 14890 8% / > > srv0:~# du -shx / > 36M / > > The operating system complains about free space, but I'm only using 36M, > while the df says that I'm using 125M, the inodes are not the problem. You probably have programs accessing files on / that have been unlinked. Once the process terminates (or closes the file descriptor) you will get your space back. If you deleted a large temp file or log file to free up space, try restarting the process that created the temp/log file. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755