Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:12:45 -0600 From: Anti <fearow@attbi.com> To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flush? Message-ID: <20030105211245.619d305e.fearow@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <200301052107.H05L7PS51182@asarian-host.net> References: <200301052107.H05L7PS51182@asarian-host.net>
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sync? `Anti` On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:19 +0100 Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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