Interesting fs usage issue

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Mar 22 10:35:31 PST 2005


In the last episode (Mar 22), David D.W. Downey said:
> /dev/ad0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> 
> df info
> ----------
> /dev/ad0s1d    989M   -444K    911M    -0%    /tmp
> 
> and finally,
> 
> fbdev# du -hs /tmp
> 26K    /tmp
> fbdev#
> 
> Anyone mind explaining this?

You probably have a process holding a reference to a file that's been
unlinked.  Run "fstat -f /tmp" to see.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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