From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 16 20:05:11 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 5D2B116A4CE for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 20:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D86643D3F for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 20:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com ([192.168.42.25]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i4H34nE8030554 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 22:04:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <40A82BAB.7030005@centtech.com> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 22:04:11 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040406) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Disk full / NFS, df, and du 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: Mon, 17 May 2004 03:05:11 -0000 I have a few large NFS file servers, holding about 1Tb of diskspace each. I break those logical disks (it's on a hardware RAID) into partitions, and share them. My users fill up the partitions often enough, and when they do, they rm entire directory trees to free the space. They use du to determine how much space is in a directory and how much they are hogging. The problem I'm having is, after they do the rm's, it doesn't free the disk space. df shows it still being used, but du claims their directories are empty. If I reboot the file server, the space magically appears. I was thinking that it was because a process was using the data, or directories the data was removed from, so the blocks weren't actually freed, but that seems a little odd to me, since they claim (and different users have the same issues, and make the same claims) that nothing should be touching those areas at all. How do I get FreeBSD to release those blocks without rebooting? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------