Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:52:23 +0200 From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: mystery /var space usage Message-ID: <7cbadc8705012701523be61cfd@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, This is not one of those "I've run out of space on /var issues" but rather "what the hell is using up the space" issue. My /var file system shows: /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. Baring in mind this is a production mail server with about 60 000 accounts, does anyone have any other suggestions which I might try ? I could just boot into single user mode and back out which will probably solve my problem now but for obvious reasons I would like to know what is causing the added usage of /var. I'm running 4.10 currently but plan to update that to 4.11 if I have to reboot. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Nelis
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