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Date:      Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:42:32 +0200
From:      Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mystery of increasing disk usage
Message-ID:  <46B38528.10100@boosten.org>
In-Reply-To: <46B384F0.2070609@boosten.org>
References:  <42acc2230708031016r726acd1em5d292c949c9d13d7@mail.gmail.com> <20070803135010.0c24e359.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <46B384F0.2070609@boosten.org>

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Peter Boosten wrote:
> 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...
> 

A solution might be searching with fstat or lsof...

Peter
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