At 07:34 PM 8/6/2005, Jhih-Sing Chen wrote:>Hi all,
>
>I'm using 4.11 version of FreeBSD and I have a problem with the /
>partition disk usage.
>Actually the / partition was 90% usage, but after reboot, it turned
>into 31% usage.
>
>Jschen# df -h
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/da0s1a 20G 5.6G 13G 31% /
>/dev/da0s1e 418G 184G 201G 48% /home
>
>Any ideas?
>Thanks.
You probably deleted a file out from under something that still had the
file open. The space freed by removing the file won't show up as free until
the process that had the file opened closes it.
A typical example would be deleting a large log file in /var/log that
syslogd still has open.
-Glenn
>-jschen
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