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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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