Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:19:56 +0200 From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> To: joseph kacmarcik <freebsd-questions@chubbo.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mystery /var space usage Message-ID: <7cbadc870501280319360dec62@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1106839770.41f908da92fa7@mail.chubbo.net> References: <7cbadc8705012701523be61cfd@mail.gmail.com> <1106839770.41f908da92fa7@mail.chubbo.net>
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:29:30 -0800, joseph kacmarcik <freebsd-questions@chubbo.net> wrote: > > > /dev/amrd0s1e 9.8G 4.8G 4.2G 53% /var > > > > A du -h of /var shows a total of 616M data only. First thing that came > > to mind is some process which is holding onto data so I tried > > restarting various daemons - cyrus, imapd, exim, apache and still no > > change. I've checked with fstat and lsof to see if I can see anything > > suspicious but nothing out of the ordinary shows up. > > sounds like the maillog. have you tried restarting syslogd or whatever process > you have that writes to your maillog? > syslogd was the first process I restarted amongst all the others to see if the problem could be solved. after doing some googling i came across this same problem mentioned before. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-June/010764.html and another maybe not freebsd related http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-fileutils/2002-10/msg00042.html I have exactly the same problem which leads me to think that this may be some sort of bug with softupdares ? mail:/var# du -hs /var 621M /var mail:/var# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1e 9.8G 5.4G 3.7G 59% /var the usage for /var is growing all the time so I'm going to have to take the machine down this weekend which I'm sure will solve the problem for now but I'd sure like to know what causes this. Nelis
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