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Date:      Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:42:16 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        mccyron@kc.rr.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.8 - / out of space
Message-ID:  <20050103224216.GA59833@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <41D9C7BC.2050309@bouncebk.com>
References:  <41D9C7BC.2050309@bouncebk.com>

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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:31:24PM -0600, McCy Ron wrote:
> System: FreeBSD 4.8 with standard config on PII/400...used mainly as a=20
> backup server.
>=20
> df shows...
>=20
> Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    128990  119660    -988   101%    /
> /dev/ad0s1f    257998       4  237356     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1g   7426528 2109420 4722986    31%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e    257998   15888  221472     7%    /var
> procfs              4       4       0   100%    /proc
>=20
> My root file system is full and I can't account for why this is so. I=20
> used du on all of the directories on / and could only come up with=20
> 28000K of usage - far short of what it's supposed to hold. The User=20
> Manual suggests that there my be some files not accounted for by du=20
> actually residing on the system. What is the best way to reclaim this spa=
ce?

Use fstat to find what is holding open a reference to the deleted
file, and kill it.  I think this is explained in the FAQ.

Kris

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