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From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
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Subject: Softupdates not syncing
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On one of our servers, deleted space is not being freed and causing is to
run out of disk space.  To test this, I copied a 200 meg file to the /usr
partition and then deleted it. I checked df before copying, after copying,
and after deleting it.  After deleting it, the space never became
available.  I waited atleast 24 hours just to make sure.

4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 29 10:18:20 PST 2001

I checked the disk space just a minute ago:
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a    125983    38405    77500    33%    /
/dev/da0s1e   8229668  7489763    81532    99%    /usr
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

Notice how /usr is almost full.  There should actually be quite a bit of
space available.

I mounted /usr2 and then when I umount'd /usr2, the missing space on /usr
magically came back.

Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a    125983    38405    77500    33%    /
/dev/da0s1e   8229668  6702791   868504    89%    /usr
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

That is almost 800Mb that was locked up.  Am I doing something wrong? or
is this a bug?  I didn't see anything in a quick search of the mailing
lists. 

CC me I'm not on the list.


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