We FOUND IT.
We did do the procedure that Michael recommended, but unfortunately none of the nfs mount labels /var /usr /tmp contained any data after booting into single user mode. What we did find was a NFS folder that contained a huge 300 meg .tar.gz file that wasn't finished downloading. (Was a BSDSRC tree that was tar'd gz'd) Have to watch for massive NFS file transfers of abnormally large files -- that is what caused the issue. Next time we'll use WGET instead while sitting at the /usr partition instead of the root folder. ________________________________ From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> To: rtsit <rt...@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 1:13 PM Subject: Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is FreeBSD lying about space? rtsit <rt...@yahoo.com> writes: > I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that any process in > memory that still claimed ownership of an open part of the disk would > release it. There are other things that can cause disk space to seem to disappear, but there is a reason that one is in the FAQ list and the others aren't; it's virtually always the cause when someone reports such a problem on this list. > Didn't work. I'm going to try the other method recommended by Michael > Sierchio -- to reboot in single user mode and try and clear out any > directory structures that could exist that my mount labels could be > hiding. Thanks for the reply and helpful link. If the mounts are shadowing files, that will certainly hide data use. I hope that turns out to be the issue and you get it fixed quickly. > (It was nice to not see a RTFM response, but a helpful link -- it is > appreciated). I don't agree with you here. My response *was* RTFM, and I don't see anything inherently wrong with that. I'm glad it was helpful. Good luck. _______________________________________________ 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"
