Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:50:35 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck: UNREF 9 megs Message-ID: <20000331095035.A38259@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000331140641.02f4f680@mail.Go2France.com>; from "Len Conrad" on Fri Mar 31 14:24:08 GMT 2000 References: <4.3.2.20000331140641.02f4f680@mail.Go2France.com>
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In the last episode (Mar 31), Len Conrad said: > Gotta 3.4R with a full /. Fsck found a 9 megabyte UNREF FILE, which would > really unfill my / of 40 megs. fsck -p says this sucker is CLEARED. Do I > have reboot to get the filespace back? Yow! Fsck should never be run on a mounted filesystem. The kernel will be really confused when the contents of the filesystem changes. Shutdown, reboot into single-user mode, and fsck them again, to make sure you haven't damaged anything. That 9MB UNREF file is probably a logfile, or a tempfile that had been deleted while a program still held it open. It would have disappeared on a reboot anyway (or if you could file the process holding it open, you could kill just that process without having to reboot).. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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