On 12 Dec 2001 at 0:36, nate wrote:
> <quote who="Adrian Bolzan"> > > Hello, > > > > > where did the other 1.6GB go? > > did you delete a buncha stuff? in many cases deleted > data is not actually freed up until the process that > was using the data exits. one quick way to be sure > all processes exit cleanly is to go to runlevel 1 > and back to runlevel2 (init 1). you'll need > console access to do this, all processes and networking > will be shut down when going to single user(or > you can modify the init scripts to come right back > to runlevel 2). > > or you can fart around with fuser and lsof to track > down what may be using files on /var which may > be holding up the system. if all else fails unmount > the partition and run a fsck on it. > > nate > thanks for the ideas. I will give both of these a go. /var holds some data for a a web app in a postgres database so maybe something has happened there. cheers, adrian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
