/var with capacity -1%

[Ingeborg Hellemo]

eugen at kuzbass.ru said:
> > It is possible to have files that are open and held by processes on
> > the filesystem that are no longer listed. If you kill the offending
L > process the space will be freed up.
> 
> "lsof +aL1 <file_system>" shows unlinked open files on the specified file
> system (quoting its man page). 


If you read my first mail you will see that this is not a case of overfull 
/var (101% used) and a need to free space. Something is wrong with either the 
filesystem or df(1) since it claims that I am using a negative amount of 
disk-blocks.

There are no unlinked open files on /var, and I fail to understand how they 
could have explained the output of df(1)



--Ingeborg 
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Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo  --  ingeborg at cc.uit.no  (Univ. of Tromsø, Norway)