From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 18 17:24:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07738 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles324.castles.com [208.214.167.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07731 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:24:38 GMT (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA06067; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804190022.RAA06067@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jon C. Smith" cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:07:56 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:22:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I upgraded from 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2.6-STABLE about 2 or three weeks ago, > and I decided to upgrade X from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 (in a vain hope that > certain keyboard problems would be eliminated). Have you discussed these problems with the X people? The syscons people? > I went about this by > going into /usr/src/release/sysintall, doing a 'make' followed by a 'make > install', going into the new sysinstall, and re selecting the > distributions of X I had installed, only in the newer version. I'd have said it would be easier to install them manually, but YMMV. > Somewhere along the line, I did a 'du' and noticed my 100 meg root > partition had gone from ~24% to ~66%. Ok, so I looked in /temp. No new > files there. Started poking around, I could _not_ find what file was > sitting there with (at that point) about 50 megs of my drive space. > Eventually, the root partition got to 104% capacity, I aborted the X > windows install, and rebooted the system. Suddently, I have only ~24% of > my root partition full. > > I am totally baffled. It is quite common for applications to create a temporary file, then delete it while still keeping it open. The file still exists (because it's open), but it's not in a directory anywhere. When the application exits (eg. system reboot), the file is closed, and the space it occupied is freed. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message