Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:10:12 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system trouble Message-ID: <3E4CF8C4.3050601@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3E4CAA89.9040003@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <3E4CAA89.9040003@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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Heinrich Rebehn wrote: [ ... ] > 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. Was some process holding those files open? The space doesn't get freed until that process terminates. > 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: > > syncing disks.. > > 3321 3321 3321 3316 ..... > > I dont't know the exact numbers anymore, but it printed some 40x80 lines > of 4 digit numbers, the last line was all 1s and then said: When you rebooted, your system had ~3300 buffers of data that had not yet been written to disk. It was able to write almost all of them out to disk, but it failed with one: > giving up on 1 buffers. > > When rebooting, all fs were unclean and i had to wait the usual 20 > minutes for fsck to complete. Yes. FreeBSD probably should have marked the other filesystems (except for the one with the open buffer) as clean. But fsck'ing after a moderately serious problem-- even if you may not have really needed to-- is a fail-safe approach. -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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