Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:57:40 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: jamgill <jamgill@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reclaiming /var capacity? Message-ID: <20090311195740.GA70853@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <9da4e0e90903111223j7549c28ak16c2d14739507992@mail.gmail.com> References: <9da4e0e90903111130o71de8b54xc417b51c1aaf31dd@mail.gmail.com> <20090311190422.GA71253@darklight.homeunix.org> <9da4e0e90903111223j7549c28ak16c2d14739507992@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:23:50PM -0400, jamgill wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:30:08PM -0400, j. wrote: > > > Where did my capacity go and how can I get it back? > > > > > > deathray# du -sh /var > > > 70M /var > > > > > > > > > deathray# df -h /var > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > > /dev/da0d 248M 214M 15M 94% /var > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > --j. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF > > > > > > Thanks, Yuri. According to the FAQ you linked, wouldn't a good smattering > of "sync ; sync ; sync ; sync ; sync" cause the the two to reflect the sizes > accurately? This will do nothing if a process has an open file descriptor on a deleted file. Use fstat(1) or lsof to help hunt down the offending process. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When all else fails, RTFM
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