From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 5 16:28:16 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 2F9E337B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallback-mx2.atl.registeredsite.com (fallback-mx2.atl.registeredsite.com [64.224.219.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABC643E4A for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:28:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Received: from mail4.atl.registeredsite.com (mail4.atl.registeredsite.com [64.224.219.78]) by fallback-mx2.atl.registeredsite.com (8.12.2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h05L7h57021167 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:07:43 -0500 Received: from asarian-host.net (asarian-host.net [216.122.74.112]) by mail4.atl.registeredsite.com (8.12.2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h05L7Vm8007949 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:07:31 -0500 Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email addresses for asarians can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by asarian-host.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) id h05L7QL51191 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Posted-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:26 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Message-Id: <200301052107.H05L7PS51182@asarian-host.net> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:19 +0100 X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net Subject: flush? X-Trace: L5EIHM/bwhP/GL5SBqwk1HR/tNzcgJWzPar6Ufpv5yFoZI0VpQcyqQc0srEKR+3C X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAPhiejjFqW1BleBN9AQEMGgf+KyyKMn0PV+2PFUJx74gqZYRzj7D2KhmH KZyfdAchqXS6xvQNnuTefKGXQQXO67UHp7Mt3AV8DGEzD43tE8wNNwxo5OU+zPyT OkSy8ZlEOi2dgpNptXv1nFvTY9yjI8iAStrkrx32SeuQa3U9agDUV2k4T7PgtLti 5THwo0IEcu7+DvOlYvZWOVkeJ3KTV7U+lkGmi1ft3evtUzhRhqqanGAs1AcbVuK+ guwYJurEDoWn5FYhIIDOJPk44DfOAskKuqaZlYBXDpdIT6b4VkzVZlzY+pI7sCt7 wjuJt+HCBFl+cGsqpn43rXoNfTeJhuCN1YeBH65K3oYMi+vBh4Louw== =rTuE 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 When I use dump to make a backup, I noticed that a very large file (several G), which had just been moved off the partition (several seconds before), seems to have been backup-ed by dump after all. Or, I should say, its size seems to be added to the dump-file, making my backup of that partition several G larger than it should be. This must be some sort of caching problem, as I already saw this once before, on using df, where df, for a while thereafter, still shows the size of a partition occupied after deleting a large file, only to drop back to its normal indication a few seconds later. Or it could be that dump, while the file has already been deleted, just grows extra large because of all those blocks that have been used. :( Is there a way I can flush this cache, so dump will only use files that actually still exist? Thanks. - Mark System Administrator Asarian-host.org --- "If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message