From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 16:20:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0C037B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBED2B68F; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 01:20:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0B85B15D; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:20:35 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:20:35 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Gary Kline Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: what's on / that keeps filling up? Message-ID: <20011027092035.O552@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List References: <200110260724.f9Q7OYE40463@tao.thought.org> <20011026100255.D8919@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20011026100718.A40521@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011026100718.A40521@tao.thought.org>; from kline@tao.thought.org on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:07:18AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:07:18AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:02:55AM +0100, Ceri wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:24:34AM -0700, Gary Kline said: > What du turns up is inconclusive; my df / went from 99 to 100% > in a few hours, and `find .... -ctime 1 ' also was unhelpful. > What it was, evidently, was that over the past two months of > uptime, too many domains were cached. ...After a reboot, > df / is only 34%. You probably threw away a file which was still in use by an application. The filesystem won't show the file anymore in the output of ls et al, but the application still can write to it and read from it. Just before the shutdown, when all the applications are stopped, the file stops being used and the diskspace is freed. I've had these kind of problems in the past with people trying to get rid of their files in /var/log because their disk is full, not realizing that they have to -HUP the syslogd. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message