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To: Khairuddin Ghani <abdulgha@usc.edu>
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Subject: Re: full /var, but minimal content.
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Khairuddin Ghani wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> There seems to be a problem with a machine of mine running 4.0-RELEASE. /var
> seems to be completely full, but du(1) only shows around 1% of it being used.
> 
> Here's df(1) output:
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    992239    24384   888476     3%    /
> /dev/ad0s1f    992239     4620   908240     1%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1g   5706541   964351  4285667    18%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e    992239   932335   -19475   102%    /var
> procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
> 
> Here's du(1) output on /var:
>   0B    ./account
<SNIP>
> 9.1M    .
> 9.1M    total
> 
> Hope someone can help. Thanks all. :)

I remember a conversation about this problem earlier and the solution
was that used space wasn't truely reclaimed until all open descripters
to it were closed (or something like that ...)
Try kill -HUP ing the daemons that are logging to that drive and/or
creating files on it.

-Bill

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