From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 3:14:36 2003 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 60A9937B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:14:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (ra.dweebsoft.com [209.237.40.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA0A43F93 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert@dweebsoft.com) Received: from daxhome (anubis.dweebsoft.com [64.81.58.36]) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with SMTP id h1EBES47095791; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:14:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert@dweebsoft.com) Message-ID: <004d01c2d41a$3dcf01d0$8a01a8c0@dweebsoft.com> From: "Daxbert" To: "Heinrich Rebehn" , References: <3E4CAA89.9040003@ant.uni-bremen.de> Subject: Re: file system trouble Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:14:28 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The /home filesystem was full (121G partition on a 3ware escalade raid) > So i deleted 7G, but df did not show any difference. The fs is mounted w/ > soft-updates. I issued a sync command, but still no change. The files were no > longer shown in ls, but space was not freed. So i decided to reboot, to make > sure that the deleted files are not still opened by some process. > The shutdown went normal, but at the end it said: > sysncing disks.. > 3321 3321 3321 3316 ..... > giving up on 1 buffers. > When rebooting, all fs were unclean and i had to wait the usual 20 minutes for > fsck to complete. I've seen the same 'df' situation when softupdates are enabled, but I've never tried to resolve the problem with a reboot. I just ignore the 'df' output, and proceed normally. After some time passes, 'df' returns to reporting the expected values. I've always thought this was normal with softupdates. However, I've not had your problem with the fsck, but then again... I've not rebooted soon after deleting 7GB of data from a file system. What are you running? 4.6.2, 4.7, -current? --daxbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message