2011/2/28 Robert Bonomi <bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com>: >> 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. >
Yeah, not true. Checked with lsof /var and it was used by these daemons: devd syslogd rpcbind snmpd mysqld httpd sendmail cron Yes, I can stop them all, but was not sure about stopping devd... _______________________________________________ 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"
