Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:14:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to recover disk space after "filesystem full" Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905220853530.55458@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
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Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story. The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had effectively been DOSed. I'll have to look into changing my logging policies. So, to correct the problem, I log into the router, removed the big log and several other files in /var to free up some space, and assumed this would correct the problem. It did not. Several minutes after freeing up a lot of space on /var, I continued to get "filesystem full" messages and "df" continued to show the capacity at >100%. I checked "df -i" for the inodes too. That was fine. I ran a quick fsck to see if that might shock the system into seeing all the space that I'd freed up, but no good. I ended up rebooting the box. Was there any other possible solution I could've tried? Why wouldn't the free space immediately appear as free?
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