From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 9:12:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.201.55.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3942D37BFBB for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) Received: from localhost (jwg2@localhost) by adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA55182 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:12:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Gray To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How not to reboot, was part of df - du leakage Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As part of the earlier thread it was suggested that the way to resolve the problem of a growing /var fs [as shown by df] and a stable /var [as shown by du] was to reboot into single user mode and run fsck. While this may work ... FreeBSD is not Windows . Rebooting should not be necessary; looking for an alternative. Also, not clear to me why this will fix the problem, as opposed to just resetting the fs. Running 3.3 R /var is growing at 50K an hour. No log files being rotated, that I am aware of. Thanks jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message