Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:19:50 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: rricci@theonlynet.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Full filesystems Message-ID: <199806301819.NAA16094@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <199806301643.KAA00413@ns2.theonlynet.com> from Robert Ricci at "Jun 30, 1998 10:42: 3 am"
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In a previous message, Robert Ricci said: > (Please CC: me, as I am not subscribed to this list) > > 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? Well, there's nothing really that can be fixed. What happened was you removed a file that was opened by an program that was running. The space of that file is not freed until the program completes or is killed (possibly with a -HUP). Until that happens, the file remains, though you can't see it. -- "What did you have in mind, Sergeant?"-- Sharon Stone in "Basic Instinct" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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