Re: How to recover disk space after "filesystem full"

2009-05-22 Thread Luke Dean
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote: Luke Dean wrote: I ended up rebooting the box. Was there any other possible solution I could've tried? You have to restart the service that was holding the log file(s) open. The system does not release the space while an application is 'using' the

Re: How to recover disk space after "filesystem full"

2009-05-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 22 May 2009 18:19:25 Steve Bertrand wrote: > # pkg_add -r lsof Or use the native fstat(1). -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fre

Re: How to recover disk space after "filesystem full"

2009-05-22 Thread Fred Condo
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Luke Dean wrote: > > Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story. > > The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that > dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had > effectively been DOSed.  I'll

Re: How to recover disk space after "filesystem full"

2009-05-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Luke Dean writes: > Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story. > > The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that > dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had > effectively been DOSed. I'll have to look into changing my log

Re: How to recover disk space after "filesystem full"

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
Luke Dean wrote: > > Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story. > > The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that > dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had > effectively been DOSed. I'll have to look into changing my lo

How to recover disk space after "filesystem full"

2009-05-22 Thread Luke Dean
Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story. The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had effectively been DOSed. I'll have to look into changing my logging policies. So, to corr