df report

[Mike Starke]

Was a procmail log that went wacky. The system has been rebooted
a couple times since the incident. No way to restart the same process
which created the mess.

sync was a no go as well.



Mike
mgcon@getnet.com
http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
Phoenix, AZ
USA

On Sat, 9 Dec 2000 sinck@ugive.com wrote:

> 
> \_ Most likely the file is still open.  I am guessing that it is a log file
> \_ of some type.  So you need to restart whatever program created the file.
> 
> Or the file could still be in memory.  Try 'sync' a few times to make
> it flush everything out of memory.
> 
> Also, depending, you might want to slap the quota system around and
> make the user unhappy...that'll get him in the Christmas Spirit more
> than any song ever could.  :-)
> 
> \_ > After deleteing a very large file which grew out
> \_ > of control in one of users home directories, the
> \_ > command 'df' still shows that partition with the same
> \_ > amount of disk usage. How can I reclaim that space?
> \_ [...]
> \_ > Tips please
> 
> See the jar on the server.  :-)
> 
> David
> 
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