From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 6:10:13 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 4251A37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 06:10:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E1C43F85 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 06:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.41.173]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030214141010.NYZW16306.out005.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:10:10 -0600 Message-ID: <3E4CF8C4.3050601@mac.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:10:12 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system trouble References: <3E4CAA89.9040003@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <3E4CAA89.9040003@ant.uni-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [129.44.41.173] at Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:10:10 -0600 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 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