From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 15: 9:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from socrates.i-pi.com (Socrates.i-pi.com [198.49.217.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D12C37C1FE for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:09:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ingham@socrates.i-pi.com) Received: (from ingham@localhost) by socrates.i-pi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA32424; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:56:23 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:56:23 -0700 From: Kenneth Ingham To: Jeff Gray Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: df behaviour Message-ID: <20000307155623.E29448@socrates.i-pi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com on Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:00:22PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:00:22PM -0800, Jeff Gray wrote: > Occassionally when I remove large files the storage does not reappear in > df. > > I have seen this on 2.2.8 and now on 3.3 > > Is there a way to 'get the space back into df' without rebooting? Removing a file which is open does not reclaim the storage until the file is closed. Find the process which has the file open (lsof from the ports is helpful here), kill it and the space will reappear. If the process that has the file open is syslogd, just send it a hangup signal. Kenneth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message