Hi, On Sun Oct 26, 2008 at 10:14:39 +0100, Federico Giannici wrote: > We have an OpenBSD 4.3-stable server that uses mfs for the "/tmp" partition > (to increase speed with little temporary files). > > After a lot of days of usage (currently 43) it results that the mfs > partition is "used" for a large part, but there are almost no files there!
You may have running processes holding files open that have since been unlinked from /tmp or its children. df(1) will highlight this utilisation, but not tools like ls(1) or du(1). The latter can only report what they see in your file system directories. Try an fstat -f /tmp. Cheers, Saj
