From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 9:34:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A73337B402 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:34:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a062.otenet.gr [212.205.215.62]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2FHYSYY005835; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:34:30 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2FHYZo5011936; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:34:36 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2FH3GxU011705; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:03:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:03:15 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Simas Cepaitis Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20020315170315.GF11203@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-03-15 09:16, Simas Cepaitis wrote: > Hello, > > Strange thing happened to one of my 4.5-STABLE servers > last night and i can't think what it was. Log was filled > with messages like > > > Mar 15 03:04:03 snow /kernel: pid 77580 (httpd), uid 0 on /var: file > system full > > du on /var showed 7.4M used, but df output was > > /dev/da0s1e 992M 992M -79.0M 109% /var Some daemon or other runaway process keeping open a file in /var :) When a program has opened a file, and you delete the file, then the disk space doesn't really get freed until that program dies. This is explained in more detail in the FAQ at http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message