From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 11:24:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01238 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:24:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01224 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:24:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: from localhost (nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA24243; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:14:38 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nadav@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:14:37 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Glenn Hunt cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating Free Block List In-Reply-To: <199801151841.SAA25300@emxmain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Glenn Hunt wrote: > I am running 2.2.5-RELEASE on a Pentium 100, 40MB RAM, 1GB IDE HDD > as a firewall. On my /var filesystem, temp files are created and > deleted, but when they are deleted, the free block list is not > updated. If I use 'df', it will say that there are 5,100 blocks > used, but when I run 'du' in the /var directory, it only shows 3,000 > block used. The number using 'df' seems to continue to grow, until > eventually it thinks the filesystem is full, and it stops accepting > mail, etc. Only a reboot solves this problem. What am I missing. I > have compiled the standard kernel, except that I have configured an > extra network card. > > Glenn Hunt > ghunt@emx.ca > It may be that the files you're deleting are being accessed by a process. If a file is open and you attempt to delete it, its entry in the directory structure will disappear, but the file will remain on disk until the last process using it will close it. Nadav