From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 06:33:21 2007 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 ABA7D16A41B for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:33:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marka@isc.org) Received: from drugs.dv.isc.org (drugs.dv.isc.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:820:214:22ff:fed9:fbdc]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC0113C4AA for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:33:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marka@isc.org) Received: from drugs.dv.isc.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by drugs.dv.isc.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9O6XJ6m034593; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:33:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from marka@drugs.dv.isc.org) Message-Id: <200710240633.l9O6XJ6m034593@drugs.dv.isc.org> To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" From: Mark Andrews In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:27:10 +0200." <471EE5BE.5080604@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:33:19 +1000 Sender: marka@isc.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1.3G of my /var missing 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, 24 Oct 2007 06:33:21 -0000 > df -h reports that on /var 1.5G of 1.9G are used and only 237M of free space > remain. > > However doing a > du -hd 1 /var > > and summing up the results I only get to less than 200M of used space, so > there are 1.3G unaccounted for. fsck in single user mode does not recognize a > problem. The usual answer is that a process has a unlinked file open however as you went to single user this would have eliminated this. Are you swapping to a file on /var? Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org