Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:17:17 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: David Loszewski <dave@bsdadmins.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: var used space is not right Message-ID: <3ECF9B0D.7080406@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <001901c32202$f884af30$65fefe0a@hades> References: <001901c32202$f884af30$65fefe0a@hades>
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David Loszewski wrote: > I have a troubling problem that I can't seem to figure out. For the > past week my /var has been keep filling up on me, mostly because I > have a 500MB /var partition and it says that 452MB of it is used but > only 772K is available. You probably tried to delete files which are still held open by a running process: the system can't reuse that space until the process exits. Try rebooting and see whether that frees up the space. If so, next time use "cat /dev/null >! logfile" or whatever... -Chuck
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