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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:29:05 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Efra=EDn_D=E9ctor?= <efraindector@motumweb.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /var getting full
Message-ID:  <1335540545.66865.71.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <4E9B7F6B991C46BF9CCBC03F72A56AFB@CMOTUM25PC>
References:  <4E9B7F6B991C46BF9CCBC03F72A56AFB@CMOTUM25PC>

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On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 10:14 -0500, Efra«żn D«±ctor wrote:
> Hello. I have a server using FreeBSD 8.2, and recently IĄÇve noticed that /var is getting full But du hs /var shows me this:
> 
> 14M    /var/
> 
> How Can I know what is using var to free space?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> OS info:
> FreeBSD edh.edh 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:45:57 UTC 2011     root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

I would speculate that some process has unlinked a file but still has it
open so the space is still in use.  Try
 
  procstat -af | grep /var

and look especially for lines that have a huge number in the OFFSET
column (although I'm not sure that's definitive -- the file descriptor
could be positioned at an offset less than the file size).

-- Ian





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