On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:54:43PM +0100, Adam Papai wrote: > Hello list, > > I've run into a problem. > > My /var reached the 105% disk usage. I've deleted 1.5G from /var but the > df shows me still 2Gb. > > du -csh /var shows 38M > > What can I do? I tried: sync but nothin happens. The programs can't write > to /var so it intiditaces a little deffect.. > > What's the solution? Only the reboot?
There is probably a program that is running with an open file handle. Whichever program caused your /var to be filled up is probably still growing that file, so you have to close it. Try fstat(1). -Ray-
