From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 18:27:04 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D520F10657C0 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:27:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rtsit@yahoo.com) Received: from nm19-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm19-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AFAE8FC26 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.48] by nm19.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Nov 2011 18:27:03 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.246] by tm1.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Nov 2011 18:27:03 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1060.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Nov 2011 18:27:03 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 511082.31859.bm@omp1060.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 80301 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Nov 2011 18:27:03 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1320690423; bh=6wLppLQf5Yq9roMPdTiP9X5E9YLztQnbhw8P5QipOZE=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=b+I5App6g7Kd+xF8RYlAHRZvmWtYIMfOQao0/Sz7tcH7aEqo6rXJ9VHDyqkSf6pfY5kWfM8U+dopGOYlyg+7gM34WQ49/AVoCZ74w7FL1cteeBcWkef8Ctnaac2zQ4SmGOl/hLF6pJvh+UGPBzA64o666PWwARYCvF7daDnsVpM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=SX8R09PpXE2QPGw2gQoW32Tw4gK/a67G8W7FLECT92+lknN0HSn+ghS1DI8XM9ZNia5PbowvV9QdobP/Az6CEmdHu4CNeqvAilcg+z1aL4dmde+nnA6iAxD3+eVJ8G9NQXucLfN5WR2vvS1iDZWrwIUYTyEcjXWlUQcFI6rAOrE=; X-YMail-OSG: W8kqpIUVM1li9Oc4pNBIxcANIttsAIBFHdRYYEqUACpBFr9 2KgHB4bmMDAc8w_DiixgvDKpe03ZLj2yKkQnyY1YWvAiSH3hoLZmyS5Kr3lI 8cJsDKgNzeZTHVQnLH0fY8Ma_C2LAtwkN261pqGtdAwbPCSuvDdlLC4ed_7k yCVCr3mK709aPSSKlMjm4pttlL1VGww995s32BYg6G9a85syDqNvUm1Fb89W BzWeylLP.kqyXBM4nfUPNM6mjH3HeZppoIL_joCz9PiKuW4lI7lH5oUP44sG nCReAuVmlt.yZY7KOOkGZBNJJsWc2C3aQz92ZiSgg6rGmcbFnNkvFbqaZF1m U_Vm8N3RygDpJNdOYyxLFySDTxLKjALzcY7MuJ3VaVx8eVmj9d0hupGLHEFO vhoHU.DytIvgfPGSbeKYnZB2bKAhsVLjl9jf5wxMV.p1aODSLbMtAyjbBSXA - Received: from [70.78.64.225] by web121819.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:27:02 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.115.325013 References: <1320687852.11305.YahooMailNeo@web121817.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <44vcqvbylr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: <1320690422.80211.YahooMailNeo@web121819.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:27:02 -0800 (PST) From: rtsit To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <44vcqvbylr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org" Subject: Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rtsit List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:27:04 -0000 Thanks Lowell. =0A=0A=0AI did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that a= ny process in memory that still claimed ownership of an open part of the di= sk would release it.=0A=0ADidn't work. I'm going to try the other method re= commended by Michael Sierchio -- to reboot in single user mode and try and = clear out any directory structures that could exist that my mount labels co= uld be hiding.=A0 Thanks for the reply and helpful link.=0A=0A(It was nice = to not see a RTFM response, but a helpful link -- it is appreciated).=0A=0A= =0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: Lowell Gilbert =0ATo: rtsit =0ACc: "freebsd-q= uestions@freebsd.org" =0ASent: Monday, Novem= ber 7, 2011 10:01 AM=0ASubject: Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is f= ull but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?=0A=0ATry the FAQ entry = titled "The du and df commands show different amounts=0Aof disk space avail= able. What is going on?".=A0 You can find it at:=0Ahttp://be-well.ilk.org/F= reeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF