> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Feb 28 05:31:46 2011 > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:24:30 +0300 > From: c0re <nr1c...@gmail.com> > To: Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> > Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full > > 2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk>: > > On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: > >> # df -h > >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > >> /dev/ad0s1a 496M 466M -9.8M 102% / > >> > >> So it's full. > >> > >> But by du it's not appeared to be full > >> > >> > >> # du -hxd 1 / > >> 2.0K /.snap > >> 512B /dev > >> 2.0K /tmp > >> 2.0K /usr > >> 2.0K /var > >> 1.9M /etc > >> 2.0K /cdrom > >> 2.0K /dist > >> 1.0M /bin > >> 131M /boot > >> 10M /lib > >> 356K /libexec > >> 2.0K /media > >> 12K /mnt > >> 2.0K /proc > >> 7.2M /rescue > >> 296K /root > >> 4.7M /sbin > >> 4.0K /lost+found > >> 157M / > >> > > > > Do you have partitions mounted at /tmp, /usr, /var etc? Does the > > output of your du command change if you unmount those partitions? (It > > might be an idea to boot into a livefs CD or DVD given that du(1) lives > > in /usr/bin, so a bit tricky to unmount /usr and then run du) > > > > My guess is that you've at one time created files beneath what is > > usually a mount point. Mounting the partition over them makes those > > files inaccessible, but they still take up space on the drive. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew > > > > -- > > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > > Flat 3 > > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: > > matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > > > > > > At last I found time to check it. Booted with frenzy life cd, mounted > only / partition and saw trash > /var/spool. Deleted it and it solved problem. > But later was and idea to mount device of / (/dev/da0s1a) as /mnt/root > and just delete those files without need of livecd. It works in Linux. > But in freebsd i got > > # mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/root/ > mount: /dev/da0s1a : Operation not permitted > > So only single user mode or live cd could solve it.
*NOT* true. Stopping any daemons that were using "/var/spooll", and then umount(1)-ing it would have done the trick from multi-user mode. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"