From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 8 11:24:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com [192.6.9.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B85737B422 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andom1.an.hp.com (andom1.an.hp.com [15.4.128.104]) by msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819553DF; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:24:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by andom1.an.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36914B5; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:24:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id LAA20660; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:24:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009081824.LAA20660@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: full /var, but minimal content. Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 13:59:10 EDT." <39B928EE.1EEE0729@columbus.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:24:08 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran 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). -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message