Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:43:42 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1.3G of my /var missing Message-ID: <471EE99E.8020508@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200710240633.l9O6XJ6m034593@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <200710240633.l9O6XJ6m034593@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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Mark Andrews wrote: >> 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 No, I have a separate partition for swapping. I even tried to turn off soft-updates, but to no avail. I'd like to find out what causes this, but If I cannot, I will simply backup /var, run newfs and restore it.
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