/var getting full

[Efrain Dector]

Thank you all for your answers. Turns out that a Java process was using all 
of the space. I restarted it and the problem was solved.

Thank you all for helping me to resolv this, also by giving me very useful 
commands that I will use in the future.


-----Mensaje original----- 
From: Ian Lepore
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 10:29 AM
To: Efrain Dector
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: /var getting full

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 10:14 -0500, Efra醇^n D醇Pctor wrote:
> Hello. I have a server using FreeBSD 8.2, and recently I’ve noticed that 
> /var is getting full But du hs /var shows me this:
>
> 14M    /var/
>
> How Can I know what is using var to free space?
>
> Thank you.
>
> OS info:
> FreeBSD edh.edh 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 
> 18:45:57 UTC 2011 
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

I would speculate that some process has unlinked a file but still has it
open so the space is still in use.  Try

  procstat -af | grep /var

and look especially for lines that have a huge number in the OFFSET
column (although I'm not sure that's definitive -- the file descriptor
could be positioned at an offset less than the file size).

-- Ian