From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 3 19:41:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7047116A417 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 19:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl [213.51.103.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377DC13C442 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 19:41:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (localhost.egypt.nl [127.0.0.1]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6A23988E for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 21:41:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix, from userid 501) id 08BDD39885; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 21:41:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on ra.egypt.nl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, AWL autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE4A39877 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 21:41:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46B384F0.2070609@boosten.org> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:41:36 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42acc2230708031016r726acd1em5d292c949c9d13d7@mail.gmail.com> <20070803135010.0c24e359.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20070803135010.0c24e359.wmoran@potentialtech.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 OpenPGP: url=http://www.boosten.org/content/view/49/47/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000763-3, 08/02/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: Mystery of increasing disk usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:41:46 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > > If I remember correctly, the most common reason for this is files that > have been deleted, but have not had all references to them closed (i.e. > file descriptors). > You remember correctly: I've seen this happening with Apache logfiles that had been deleted but Apache didn't know about that... Peter -- http://www.boosten.org