Strange diskspace loss

[Ron]

On May 3, 2010, at 11:02 PM, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote:

> On Tue, 4 May 2010 09:51:46 +0400, áÎÔÏÎ ëÌÅÓÓ wrote:
> áë> I'm running 7.2-RELEASE amd64. Uptime 24 days.
> áë> I was told that server stoped to send emails and started to look at. There
> áë> are strange things:
> áë> 
> áë> # df -h
> áë> Filesystem        Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> áë> /dev/aacdu0s1a    7.7G    582M    6.6G     8%    /
> áë> devfs             1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> áë> /dev/aacdu0s1d     31G    276M     28G     1%    /tmp
> áë> /dev/aacdu0s1f    350G    125G    197G    39%    /usr
> áë> /dev/aacdu0s1e     31G     29G    -25M   100%    /var
> áë> /dev/aacdu1s1d    450G    3.0G    411G     1%    /var/db/mysql
> áë> fdescfs           1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev/fd
> áë> 
> áë> /var is out of space. Hmm.
> áë> 
> áë> # du -sh /var
> áë> 3,3G    /var
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF

I had a simular issue due to files not being deleted until the process that has them open is stopped.  My apache logs filled up the logs directory, I deleted them but apache still had them open, so the space was not freed until I restarted apache.  Might this be your issue?


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> WBR,
> Anton Yuzhaninov
> 
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