On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:31:24PM -0600, McCy Ron wrote: > System: FreeBSD 4.8 with standard config on PII/400...used mainly as a > backup server. > > df shows... > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 128990 119660 -988 101% / > /dev/ad0s1f 257998 4 237356 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1g 7426528 2109420 4722986 31% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 257998 15888 221472 7% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > My root file system is full and I can't account for why this is so. I > used du on all of the directories on / and could only come up with > 28000K of usage - far short of what it's supposed to hold. The User > Manual suggests that there my be some files not accounted for by du > actually residing on the system. What is the best way to reclaim this space?
Use fstat to find what is holding open a reference to the deleted file, and kill it. I think this is explained in the FAQ. Kris
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