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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:42:03 -0600
From:      "Robert Ricci" <rricci@theonlynet.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Full filesystems
Message-ID:  <199806301643.KAA00413@ns2.theonlynet.com>

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The other day, I accidentally filled up my /var filesystem, causing sendmail to 
start refusing connections and other fun problems. After removing a ~50MB file, 
`df` still showed the file system as being past full. Doing a `du -k` in /var 
showed that I had about 50MB used on this 100MB filesystem, but df still 
reported 100MB used. Even after killing sendmail and restarting it, it still 
believed /var was full and refused connections. Finally, I rebooted the machine, 
and everything began to function correctly. df now reports 50MB used on /var. 
Short of rebooting, what can I do to make programs recognize that the 
filesystem is no longer full?

BTW: This machine is running 2.2.1: has this been fixed in a more recent 
release?



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