Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:24:08 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@columbus.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: full /var, but minimal content. Message-ID: <200009081824.LAA20660@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 13:59:10 EDT." <39B928EE.1EEE0729@columbus.rr.com>
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Bill Moran <wmoran@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> > There seems to be a problem with a machine of mine running 4.0-RELEASE. /va
> r
> > seems to be completely full, but du(1) only shows around 1% of it being use
> d.
>
> 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 ...)
In addition, you'll get results like the above if you run du(1) as
non-root, if some directories aren't accessible by the user as which you
run du(1).
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Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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