[SunHELP] help for capacity of / file system

[Dale Ghent]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Sizheng Zhu wrote:

| Hi All,
|
| My / file system is increasing up to 86%. But even I empty all the message and
| log files in the directory /var/adm, /var/cron, /var/log and delete the files
| in /var/tmp, the capacity of / file system still keeps at 86%.
| How to deal with it ?

Try stopping and then starting syslogd:

/etc/init.d/syslog stop
/etc/init.d/syslog start

If one of syslogd's log files is causing all the space to be taken up,
and you zero-out it's log files, the space used will still be 86% until
syslogd releases it's file descriptor on those log files.

/dale