/var out of disk space, but not...

ckbcouture@gmail.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 2

HI.

So I have a problem with my /var partition. I am unable to write to it
and get "/var: write failed, file system is full" and "close failed:
[Errno 28] No space left on device" when I do.

If I look at disk usage using df, I get:

Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ld0a 4585 2784 1571 63% /
/dev/ld0f 4851 4617 -8 100% /var
/dev/ld0e 9695 6129 3081 66% /usr
/dev/ld0g 9695 2872 6337 31% /home
/dev/ld0h 38788 9461 27386 25% /www
kernfs 0 0 0 100% /kern
procfs 0 0 0 100%
/usr/pkg/emul/linux/proc
elk:/www/staging 38788 10463 26384 28%
/www/staging
rhino:/www/production 268340 12743 241966 5%
/www/production

If I look at /var using du, I get:

srvrs01# du -sPm /var
1125 /var

Clearly there is a discrepancy here and I can't find anything to delete
to free up the disk space. Any ideas on what is wrong and what I can
do to fix it?

Thanks,
Cameron

David Lord · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 113

On 31 May, in article
<1149088579.917473.55490@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
ckbcouture@gmail.com wrote:

ckbcouture@gmail.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 2

Actually, it turns out that I had deleted an open file. Restarting the
process (in this case named) released the open file and returned the
disk space to me.

Thanks,
Cameron

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