Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:23:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: John Fox <jjf@mind.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free Block Count Not Updating Until After Reboot Message-ID: <20030709042302.GC39506@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030709034355.GC5200@mind.net> References: <20030709034355.GC5200@mind.net>
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In the last episode (Jul 08), John Fox said: > I am running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #27 and have run into some strange > behavior with the SCSI drive. The adaptor is an Adaptec 29160 > Ultra160 adaptater, and the drive is a Seagate ST336607LW SCSI-3 > device. > > Problem is that I can rm a 4GB file and afterwards, the free block > count won't reflect the erasure. Instead, it displays the same count > it showed prior to the 'rm'. The free block count won't be updated > until I reboot the system. If you've got softupdates enabled, those blocks won't really be available for about 30 seconds. Try sync'ing a coupld times and check again. 5.x always prints the correct amount of free space. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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