From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 1 6:14: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from naiad.eclipse.net.uk (naiad.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4C337C247 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 06:13:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk) Received: by naiad.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix, from userid 475) id DF24914269; Wed, 01 Mar 2000 14:13:50 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:13:50 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson To: Rick Morel Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root File System Full Message-ID: <20000301141350.M82538@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> References: <2.2.32.20000301135850.0068f878@mail.morelr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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