From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 14:36:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B375016A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:36:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (mxfep01.bredband.com [195.54.107.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D6A143D1F for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:36:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter.schuller@infidyne.com) Received: from scode.mine.nu ([83.226.138.222] [83.226.138.222]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20040717143647.RFQS23501.mxfep01.bredband.com@scode.mine.nu> for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:36:47 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scode.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293B61C5860 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:44:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Schuller To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:44:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407171644.44473.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Subject: Root fs full -> free space always below 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:36:53 -0000 Hello, so during a portupgrade on my laptop the root fs, with soft updates enabled, became full. So I removed a bunch of stuff to make a few gigs available. I checked and df reported more than a gig of free space - so I re-ran portupgrade. Then I noticed it was full again, with df showing a negative amount of free space. I removed even more stuff, and rebooted just incase there were more blocks to be freed. After the reboot df showed a negative amount of space again. So I removed even more data (rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles) and now I had 115 meg free df claimed. I then re-ran df in quick succession a few times and watched diskspace rapidly decrease to a negative 600 meg or so (note: the decrease was perhaps 150 meg/second, so it cannot have been a process writing data to disk in the background). After a couple more reboots and a manual fsck in single user mode I still have the same problem (on both CURRENT and 5.2.1-RELEASE kernels). What to do? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org