Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:36:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Elle Yoko Suzuki <suzuki@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem over capacity Message-ID: <20000720183641.J30599@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200007200804.BAA12293@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> References: <200007200804.BAA12293@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu>
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On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 1:04:38 -0700, Elle Yoko Suzuki wrote:
>
> if a filesystem gets full, or over capacity, deleting files within
> the filesystem, files that are not currently open, with 'rm' should
> suffice, should it not? incidentally, upon checking 'df filesystem'
> after deleting files, there seems to be no change. any suggestions?
> thanks,
There are a couple of issues here:
1. rm doesn't necessarily remove files. As long as they are open by
a process, or have other hard links, they will remain on disk.
They can even grow under these circumstances.
2. Soft updates take quite a while to return the space to the file
system after really deleting files.
Greg
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