Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:27:02 -0800 (PST) From: rtsit <rtsit@yahoo.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Subject: Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space? Message-ID: <1320690422.80211.YahooMailNeo@web121819.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44vcqvbylr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1320687852.11305.YahooMailNeo@web121817.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <44vcqvbylr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Thanks Lowell. =0A=0A=0AI did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that a= ny process in memory that still claimed ownership of an open part of the di= sk would release it.=0A=0ADidn't work. I'm going to try the other method re= commended by Michael Sierchio -- to reboot in single user mode and try and = clear out any directory structures that could exist that my mount labels co= uld be hiding.=A0 Thanks for the reply and helpful link.=0A=0A(It was nice = to not see a RTFM response, but a helpful link -- it is appreciated).=0A=0A= =0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ques= tions-local@be-well.ilk.org>=0ATo: rtsit <rtsit@yahoo.com>=0ACc: "freebsd-q= uestions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>=0ASent: Monday, Novem= ber 7, 2011 10:01 AM=0ASubject: Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is f= ull but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space?=0A=0ATry the FAQ entry = titled "The du and df commands show different amounts=0Aof disk space avail= able. What is going on?".=A0 You can find it at:=0Ahttp://be-well.ilk.org/F= reeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF
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