From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 18:35:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1786616A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:35:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946DC43D31 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:35:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j2MIZTuF030410; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:35:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:35:29 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "David D.W. Downey" Message-ID: <20050322183527.GA32235@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050322175407.2890.qmail@webmail10.mesa1.secureserver.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050322175407.2890.qmail@webmail10.mesa1.secureserver.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting fs usage issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:35:31 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 22), David D.W. Downey said: > /dev/ad0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > df info > ---------- > /dev/ad0s1d 989M -444K 911M -0% /tmp > > and finally, > > fbdev# du -hs /tmp > 26K /tmp > fbdev# > > Anyone mind explaining this? You probably have a process holding a reference to a file that's been unlinked. Run "fstat -f /tmp" to see. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com