df -h reports that on /var 1.5G of 1.9G are used and only 237M of free space remain. However doing a du -hd 1 /var and summing up the results I only get to less than 200M of used space, so there are 1.3G unaccounted for. fsck in single user mode does not recognize a problem.
> df -h reports that on /var 1.5G of 1.9G are used and only 237M of free space > remain. > > However doing a > du -hd 1 /var > > and summing up the results I only get to less than 200M of used space, so > there are 1.3G unaccounted for. fsck in single user mode does not recognize a > problem.The usual answer is that a process has a unlinked file open however as you went to single user this would have eliminated this. Are you swapping to a file on /var? Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:27:10AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:> df -h reports that on /var 1.5G of 1.9G are used and only 237M of free space > remain. > > However doing a > du -hd 1 /var > > and summing up the results I only get to less than 200M of used space, so > there are 1.3G unaccounted for. fsck in single user mode does not recognize a > problem.Try looking at tunefs(8), particularly the -m flag. That amount of space is kept for root (the user). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |