Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:15:37 -0000 From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird DISKS behaviour on 4.8-STABLE Resent-Message-ID: <16215.25893.788174.792559@yertle.int.kciLink.com> References: <20030904065350.GA8216@ns2.wananchi.com>
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>>>>> "OW" == ODHIAMBO Washington <wash@wananchi.com> writes: OW> What happened is that all of a sudden, the disk would 'fill' up with OW> nothing! Yes, that's true. I would try to track down whatever it is OW> but end up with nothing. So I decide to reboot. What would then If you shut down to single user mode, where all of your processes are killed, does the space magically reappear (possibly after a few minutes)? If so, then some program has a reference to a file that has been deleted on disk, but is still writing to it. My guess is that you rotate some log file but do not tell the process writing to it to reopen the file. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/
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