Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:13:50 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson <sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> To: Rick Morel <rmorel@morelr.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root File System Full Message-ID: <20000301141350.M82538@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.20000301135850.0068f878@mail.morelr.com>; from rmorel@morelr.com on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:58:50AM -0600 References: <2.2.32.20000301135850.0068f878@mail.morelr.com>
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:58:50AM -0600, Rick Morel wrote: > Suddenly the root file system shows at 101% on one machine I administer. > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0a 31743 29501 -297 101% / > > There's nothing shown in there to account for it. I know there must be some > kind of "hidden" files because it always shows more with df, but... A search > of the big FreeBSD book and on the web has been fruitless. A process probably has a file open which it has since unlinked. The file won't show in directory listings but is using space until the process closes it. > Anyone know what I can do to take care of this? BTW, I do have /tmp moved > and set as a symbolic link on all my machines. lsof (in ports/packages) is a useful tool to determine which processes have open files (network connections, streams and so on as well as ordinary files). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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