1.3G of my /var missing

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Mark Andrews wrote:
>> df -h reports that on /var 1.5G of 1.9G are used and only 237M of free space
>> remain.
>>
>> However doing a
>> du -hd 1 /var
>>
>> and summing up the results I only get to less than 200M of used space, so
>> there are 1.3G unaccounted for. fsck in single user mode does not recognize a
>> problem.
> 
> 	The usual answer is that a process has a unlinked file open
> 	however as you went to single user this would have eliminated
> 	this.  Are you swapping to a file on /var?
> 
> 	Mark

No, I have a separate partition for swapping. I even tried to turn off
soft-updates, but to no avail. I'd like to find out what causes this, but If I
cannot, I will simply backup /var, run newfs and restore it.