free space reported incorrectly
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Dec 14 08:35:08 PST 2005
In the last episode (Dec 14), Colin Farley said:
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on a couple of production mail
> relays/web servers. Today I noticed that one had a lot more space in
> /var used. I figured that a log was growing and started to
> investigate. After running du -h /var and seeing it come up with a
> total usage much less than what df -h reports I decided to run fsck
> /var. This is the output I get:
>
> ** /dev/da1s1f (NO WRITE)
Don't trust any fsck output on a mounted filessytem.
You probably have some logfiles that got manually rotated or deleted
(i.e. not via newsyslog), and syslogd was never told to close&reopen
the logfile. Run "lsof +L1" (lsof is in ports) to find the offending
processes and restart them.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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