From: Plant, Dean (dean.plant@roke.co.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2006 - 10:02:11 EST
Plant, Dean wrote:
> On one of my Solaris 8 machines a 512MB /var is showing full. After
> clearing up some of the log files from /var/adm the disk still shows
> full even though a du -ks /var only shows 74MB usage. Where has the
> disk space gone? I have come across this before and a reboot fixed the
> problem but I would like to be able to fix it without having to
> reboot. Any idea's?
>
Thanks for all the replies.
Everyone who replied correctly pointed out that it would be a process
holding a file open and that space is not freed up until the process
exits or closes the file. Also my bad as this is covered in point 5.10
of the FAQ.
Dean
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