From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 23:07:10 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 C9CB8106566B for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:07:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Albert.Shih@obspm.fr) Received: from spock-ext.obspm.fr (spock-ext.obspm.fr [145.238.186.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2E68FC12 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pcjas.obspm.fr (pcjas.obspm.fr [145.238.184.233]) by spock-ext.obspm.fr (8.14.3/8.14.3/DIO Observatoire de Paris - 15/04/10) with ESMTP id pA7N77IZ013175 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:07:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:07:07 +0100 From: Albert Shih To: rtsit Message-ID: <20111107230707.GA24337@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: <1320687852.11305.YahooMailNeo@web121817.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <44vcqvbylr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <1320690422.80211.YahooMailNeo@web121819.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1320690422.80211.YahooMailNeo@web121819.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.4 (spock-ext.obspm.fr [145.238.186.20]); Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:07:08 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at spock-ext.obspm.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:07:10 -0000 Le 07/11/2011 à 10:27:02-0800, rtsit a écrit > Thanks Lowell. > > > 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. > > 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.  Thanks for the reply and helpful link. > Try to reboot in single mode and do a fsck on all partition. Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: mar 8 nov 2011 00:06:22 CET