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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