From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 09:21:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3C937B401 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 09:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E91F43F85 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 09:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <2003052416211805300p3kffe>; Sat, 24 May 2003 16:21:18 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h4OGLGFb015396; Sat, 24 May 2003 12:21:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h4OGLG9o015393; Sat, 24 May 2003 12:21:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: "David Loszewski" References: <001901c32202$f884af30$65fefe0a@hades> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 24 May 2003 12:21:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <001901c32202$f884af30$65fefe0a@hades> Message-ID: <44smr4joxv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: var used space is not right X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 16:21:19 -0000 "David Loszewski" 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?"