Date: 09 Jan 2004 14:15:29 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: =?iso-8859-15?q?Simon_=B4ekar?= <simon.zekar@literal.si> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partition not freeing it's space after deleting files from it Message-ID: <44llohq6ge.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3FFC91D9.2050609@literal.si> References: <3FFC91D9.2050609@literal.si>
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Simon =B4ekar <simon.zekar@literal.si> writes: > after quite some time of flawless working my FreeBSD 4.7 server's > "/var" partition apeared full. I've examined used space which reveals > that partition could not be full. >=20 > `df -hi /var` > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted > /dev/twed0s1e 252M 78M 154M 33% 2388 30122 7% /var >=20 > `du -d0 -h /var` > 18M /var >=20 > There were regular open files from syslog (fstat, lsof), since i > thought that might be some reason of not releasing the space i've > shoutdowned them all but nothing happened. Used space remained > untouched. >=20 > Even if I create some random file on this filesystem, the used size of > partition grows, but after deletion of this file the size does never > shrink. >=20 > After reboot and fsck at boot the information about usage of partition > are fixed, but endless growing exists, so i have to reboot server > frequently to fix the filesystem's information. >=20 > The system is on 3Ware Escalade ATA RAID controller on RAID-1 array. Is the fsck needed on reboot? That would be a hint...
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