From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 21:13:59 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 816A2106564A for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5638FC12 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.39]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBDFA70481 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:13:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 31113 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2011 21:13:57 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 5734, pid: 3229, t: 0.1659s scanners: clamav: m: Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Nov 2011 21:13:57 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 9FC452E0EA; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:13:56 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: rtsit References: <1320687852.11305.YahooMailNeo@web121817.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <44vcqvbylr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <1320690422.80211.YahooMailNeo@web121819.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:13:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1320690422.80211.YahooMailNeo@web121819.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (rtsit@yahoo.com's message of "Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:27:02 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: <44obwnbppp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.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: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:13:59 -0000 rtsit writes: > I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that any process in > memory that still claimed ownership of an open part of the disk would > release it. There are other things that can cause disk space to seem to disappear, but there is a reason that one is in the FAQ list and the others aren't; it's virtually always the cause when someone reports such a problem on this list. > Didn't work. I'm going to try the other method recommended by Michael > Sierchio -- to reboot in single user mode and try and clear out any > directory structures that could exist that my mount labels could be > hiding.=A0 Thanks for the reply and helpful link. If the mounts are shadowing files, that will certainly hide data use.=20=20 I hope that turns out to be the issue and you get it fixed quickly. > (It was nice to not see a RTFM response, but a helpful link -- it is appr= eciated). I don't agree with you here. My response *was* RTFM, and I don't see anything inherently wrong with that. I'm glad it was helpful. Good luck.