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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: DF reporting incorrect stats Date: 9 Dec 1996 23:09:55 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Lines: 43 Message-ID: <58i683$pkg@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <58hk8q$20b@lenny.rosenet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gpu5.srv.ualberta.ca X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) Something (probably a nnrpd) still has the history file open. Even though there is no name associated with it, and it will cease to exist when the program closes that file descriptor, it is still there and using disk space. Next time it happens try killing off all the old (that could be using the old history file) nnrpds and see if that fixes it. If so, you need to either have nnrpd automatically close the history file and reopen it every once in a while or make sure that no nnrpds hang around for too long. In <58hk8q$20b@lenny.rosenet.net> dsims@rosenet.net (Dave Sims) writes: >I recently upgraded my news server to BSDI 2.1. Along with the upgrade I >added 4gigs of storage. I now have two 4 gig drives. >My partitions and mount points are as follows >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/sd0a 49199 4757 41982 10% / >/dev/sd0h 397183 134937 242386 36% /usr >/dev/sd0g 98911 64768 29197 69% /var >/dev/sd0f 198335 109726 78692 58% /var/news >/dev/sd0e 2558100 778603 1651592 32% /var/news/spool >/dev/sd1a 3935818 2145877 1593150 57% /var/news/spool/alt >mfs:21 15871 1 15076 0% /tmp >The problem is that the /var/news partition appears to fill up. But in it >really doesn't. During the day the the Capacity reduces because of history >files, etc getting larger. Eventually the partition reaches 100%. When I >execute du to see what is filling up the partition, as the news files aren't >close in size to causing it to be full, it returns the actual (or what I >believe to be actual) disk usage. DU says that the partition is not full! >The only solution to this is to reboot! When I reboot the partion capacity >drops to about 58%. What could be causing the incorrect disk useage reported >by DF. >INN seems to be working ok except for this annoying problem. >Any help would make for a joyous season.