Re: File system b0rked.

Hi.

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:10:12AM +0100, Martin Jessa wrote:
> Something is totally b0rken. My file system was filled up by a far too
> big log file. I deleted it and waited half an hour for system to
> "settle down". This is what it still showed:
> 
> [root_at_urukhai:/var/log]# du -hs /var/
> 471M    /var/
> 
> 
> [root_at_urukhai:/var/log]# df -h |grep var
> /dev/ad0s1g                    1.9G   1.8G  -1.5M   100%    /var
> 
> 
> root_at_urukhai:/var/log]# uname -a
> FreeBSD urukhai.yazzy.org 5.2-RC FreeBSD 5.2-RC #1: Thu Jan  8 19:16:56 CET 2004     root_at_urukhai.yazzy.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/URUKHAI  i386

And you are really sure, that the file ist not opened by the logging 
application anymore? That's usually a good cause for this kind of 
behaviour (since 10th of years in UNIX ;-)).

- Oliver

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