Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Let's see if I remember the details on this. > I believe this happens when a file is deleted, but another program still holds > a filehandle? to it. Thus, if you delete Apache's log file (for example) but > don't restart Apache, the space the logfile is using isn't truely freed. > (This is why newsyslog.conf has a column for the PID of a process to restart). > > So ... if you know which process had the files open, restart it (probably by > sending it a -HUP).
Right. That's why newsyslog(8) can send a signal on rotating a log file. I'm not quite sure why this is relevant to the actual problem, because it's not really *that* many inodes involved in log files, but then again I'm not sure I completely understand the problem anyway... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
