From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 07:16:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAF491065685 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:16:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7F28FC32 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:16:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A4E521CC060; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:16:18 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Ingeborg Hellemo Message-ID: <20080402071618.GA38134@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20080401131752.GA3674@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <200804020603.m32639Zw025893@barnetv.cc.uit.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200804020603.m32639Zw025893@barnetv.cc.uit.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var with capacity -1% X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:16:19 -0000 On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:03:09AM +0200, Ingeborg Hellemo wrote: > koitsu@freebsd.org said: > > 2) Files which are open (have active file descriptors associated with them) > > on /var before it filled may be causing this. fstat may help you here. > > But /var is not full. It is _more_ than empty. I'm sorry, I wrote my mail in haste. Yes, you're correct, but what you're seeing is commonly the result of softupdates. I've seen it happen many MANY times, and it's easily reproducable. However, it goes away after a few minutes. If yours is that way constantly, I can't really explain what's going on. I'm just pointing out that negative disk space used is something I've seen many times, and it's always gone away on its own fairly quickly. What you have might be some corrupted filesystem, but someone more familiar with UFS/FFS will have to comment. Output from ffsinfo(8) on that filesystem may be useful. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |