From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 06:43:54 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 7EB6416A417 for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:43:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCD4813C494 for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:43:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2007 06:43:44 -0000 Received: from nat-wh-1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (EHLO mobileKamikaze.norad) [129.13.72.169] by mail.gmx.net (mp028) with SMTP; 24 Oct 2007 08:43:44 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5465401 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+QUo1R/9WQtg2Hfn+EQlOkKrHqhpgxppew4OYVXv y1K8Sct77l6xXA Message-ID: <471EE99E.8020508@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:43:42 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071015) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> References: <200710240633.l9O6XJ6m034593@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: <200710240633.l9O6XJ6m034593@drugs.dv.isc.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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 <freebsd-stable.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:43:54 -0000 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.