Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:22:12 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Dariusz Kowalski <darek@dreamnet.waw.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with free space on harddisk Message-ID: <3B246394.F42ED62F@i-clue.de> References: <20010610182806.A17807@dreamnet.waw.pl>
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Dariusz Kowalski schrieb: > > I have problem with free space on disk drive. > Some days ago, I configured program, and it produce > 1,3GB log file. > > df -h command shown me that there is 108% used on root partition. > How does it possible? A configurable amount of disk space is set aside for root's use only. It seems the offending log file was written with root permissions. > When I deleted that log file, df command still shown > me 108% of usage. When I reboot computer, > everything come back to right situation. > Is any way to avoid rebooting computer? > > PS. I using FreeBSD 4.0 RELEASE Manually rotate the log file: [optional] Copy the offending file to a safe place cat /dev/null > offending.log Some applications need to be told to re-open their logfiles after that. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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