On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 07:03:30PM -0400, R. Clayton wrote: > Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> writes: > > > Files which are held open but unlinked in the filesystem will not be seen > > with du, but will still count as used space in the output of df. > > Thanks for your reply. This seems an obscure problem to have immediately > after > upgrading the system. I've looked at / using fstat and haven't found anything > incriminating, but maybe fstat has the same difficulties du has (a small test > suggests it doesn't, but who knows?). > > The real question is: how do I fix / so I can update packages (short of > installing a fresh 7.7)?
If the problem is some unknown process keeping a deleted file open, killing the process should be sufficient. If rebooting the system does not change anything, I would recommend reinstalling from known-good media. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
