/var/adm/sw/save directory using up a lot of disk space

[kaushikbramesh]

Hello,

I've managed to get the disk space back on the /var partition.
Yesterday we were running a few applications on this box, the applications had filled up some of the logfiles under the /var partition.
These processes were spawned off from swconfig.
However the session which was running the swconfig was killed for some reason and the processes were still in the ps table. The log files which had grown quite big in the var partition were deleted. These processes though had stopped logging to the logfiles in /var, bdf was returning /var partition as full. Now when I killed all these processes, bdf seem to show /var as 22%. I'm confused again :-( I dont understand why bdf was showing var as 100%.

Thanks in advance for all your suggestions.

Regards
Kaushik

[MarkSyder · Accepted solution]

If processes were running, the space from any files they had open would not be released until the processes were killed. This would apply even though you deleted the files.

Mark

[kaushikbramesh]

Thank you very much for all your suggestions and help.

Regards
Kaushik