From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 5 19:13:10 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 6BD7037B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFDF343EA9 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:13:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fearow@attbi.com) Received: from god.woofcat.com (12-251-110-17.client.attbi.com[12.251.110.17]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <2003010603130800200c3gq8e>; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 03:13:08 +0000 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:12:45 -0600 From: Anti To: Mark 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> Organization: Woofcat X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 sync? `Anti` On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:19 +0100 Mark 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