Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 11:54:31 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contradictory information? Message-ID: <200201061854.g06IsVx02162@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <09be72711140612FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com>
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 09:10:53 -0500 "Brian T.Schellenberger" wrote:
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| On Sunday 06 January 2002 08:54 am, Alban Hertroys wrote:
| > For some reason I recently got alert-mails that my /var filesystem was
| > full, while there was only about 15MB of data on it. The filesystem is
| > 60MB, so that should fit quite easily.
| >
| > I'm almost nearing the alert-mail situation again, so I'd appreciate if
| > someone could tell me what is going on here...
|
| The files system rules cause the file not to be "really" deleted while the
| process is still running, and the effect is like that on MVS when a file
| exists but is not catalogued (hmmm . . . I bet MVS analogies aren't very
| common on this list, are they?): the file is out there on the disk, taking
| up space, but you can't find it via the filesystem tools.
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The analogy is exactly right. The blocks are allocated in the
inode list but are not referenced in any directory.
As you say in your posting the way to fix this is to kill the
offending process or processes. The standard utility to find these
processes is called fstat(1) and it ships with the base install.
Good luck
--
Chris Fedde
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