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[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Chris Botha  @  CTN DDN wrote:

| Hi All,
|
| I have an E450 where /var is part of the root file system.  I inherited the
| system like this. The system runs sol 2.6.
|
| The problem that I sit with is that the file system is full, and even though
| I clear the /var directory, df -f still shows a full file system.  I do
| remember that I saw the same problem, but I cannot remember what the fix
| was.
|
| Can anybody help me, please.  I am desperate at this stage!!!!

Considering you're dealing with /var, it wouldnt suprise me if syslogd is
what's keeping the filesystem from looking freer than it is. If you've
deleted a file that is opened by syslogd, try restarting syslogd. This
will make it close the open file descriptor and you'll see the free space.

/dale