Hello, I didn't delete anything by hand. The space comes back after a reboot, yes.
I found the problem : log rotation with pflogd. I killed pflogd and started it again, and the free space came back. But why log rotation fails ? It worked like a charm since more than 2 years... If that helps : # cat /etc/newsyslog.conf # $OpenBSD: newsyslog.conf,v 1.26 2007/02/02 14:52:48 ajacoutot Exp $ # # configuration file for newsyslog # # logfile_name owner:group mode count size when flags /var/cron/log root:wheel 600 3 10 * Z /var/log/aculog uucp:dialer 660 7 * 24 Z /var/log/authlog root:wheel 640 7 * 168 Z /var/log/daemon 640 5 30 * Z /var/log/lpd-errs 640 7 10 * Z /var/log/maillog 600 7 * 24 Z /var/log/messages 644 5 30 * Z /var/log/secure 600 7 * 168 Z /var/log/wtmp 644 7 * $W6D4 ZB /var/log/xferlog 640 7 250 * Z /var/log/ppp.log 640 7 250 * Z #/var/log/pflog 600 3 250 * ZB /var/run/pflogd.pid /var/log/pflog 600 3 * 24 ZB /var/run/pflogd.pid TYVM for the help -- Cordialement, Pierre BARDOU -----Message d'origine----- De : Richard Toohey [mailto:richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz] Envoyi : lundi 9 novembre 2009 09:21 @ : BARDOU Pierre Cc : misc@openbsd.org Objet : Re: Disk occupation problem On 9/11/2009, at 9:11 PM, BARDOU Pierre wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange problem with disk occupation. > Df says my disk is nearly full (25G occupied), but when I do a du > sh on the > mountpoint it says only 10M used !? > Are you deleting in-use log files? Does the space come back after a reboot? > I had the same problem a few days ago on 4.5-stable ; I upgraded to > 4.6-stable and it happens again. > > Some logs : > # du -sh /var/ > 10.7M /var/ > # du -sh /var/* > 2.0K /var/account > 2.0K /var/audit > 2.0K /var/authpf > 1.3M /var/backups > 4.0K /var/crash > 22.0K /var/cron > 2.2M /var/db > 4.0K /var/empty > 44.0K /var/games > 12.0K /var/lib > 4.2M /var/log > 4.0K /var/lost+found > 1.1M /var/mail > 4.0K /var/msgs > 92.0K /var/named > 2.0K /var/quotas > 96.0K /var/run > 2.0K /var/rwho > 24.0K /var/spool > 4.0K /var/tmp > 1.4M /var/www > 28.0K /var/yp > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 3.8G 2.1G 1.5G 59% / > /dev/sd0d 28.6G 25.0G 2.2G 92% /var > > Could someone give me a clue on how to fix this ? > TYVM > > -- > Cordialement, > > Pierre BARDOU > CSIM - Bureau 012 > > > > > 12 rue Michel Labrousse > BP93668 > F-31036 Toulouse CEDEX 1 > > Til : 05 67 69 71 84 > Fax : 05 34 61 51 00 > Mail : bardo...@mipih.fr > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7- > signature which had a name of smime.p7s] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]