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Date:      24 May 2003 12:21:16 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        "David Loszewski" <dave@bsdadmins.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: var used space is not right
Message-ID:  <44smr4joxv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <001901c32202$f884af30$65fefe0a@hades>
References:  <001901c32202$f884af30$65fefe0a@hades>

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"David Loszewski" <dave@bsdadmins.net> writes:

> 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.  For one I did a du -sh /var and I'm only
> taking up 5.9MB in the var directory and I tried adding up space
> elsewhere to see if the space is going anywhere else but it's still
> not adding up.

Check the FAQ titled "The du and df commands show different amounts of
disk space available. What is going on?"

>                 And Even if I have 452MB used, which I don't, I should
> still have like 48MB left to use.  Ideas on what's going on here?

Check the FAQ titled "How is it possible for a partition to be more
than 100% full?"



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