4.8 - / out of space

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:31:24PM -0600, McCy Ron wrote:
> System: FreeBSD 4.8 with standard config on PII/400...used mainly as a 
> backup server.
> 
> df shows...
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    128990  119660    -988   101%    /
> /dev/ad0s1f    257998       4  237356     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1g   7426528 2109420 4722986    31%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e    257998   15888  221472     7%    /var
> procfs              4       4       0   100%    /proc
> 
> My root file system is full and I can't account for why this is so. I 
> used du on all of the directories on / and could only come up with 
> 28000K of usage - far short of what it's supposed to hold. The User 
> Manual suggests that there my be some files not accounted for by du 
> actually residing on the system. What is the best way to reclaim this space?

Use fstat to find what is holding open a reference to the deleted
file, and kill it.  I think this is explained in the FAQ.

Kris
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