From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 26 13:59:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7B0153DD for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:59:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id WAA00301 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:59:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id BBC4A8855; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:41:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:41:33 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file disappeared? Message-ID: <19990426204133.A56100@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <199904261653.RAA89313@pcayk.ukc.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199904261653.RAA89313@pcayk.ukc.ac.uk>; from Dean Lombardo on Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:53:47PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#5244 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Dean Lombardo: > How on earth did that happen?!!! Are you using softupdates ? If yes, there is a 30s window where the space is still taken and not given back to the system. > So I decided to run fsck, with -p at first: Never run fsck on a live filesystem, you could screw up yourself big time. > Any suggestions on how to deal with this? Either do a lot of sync or just wait 30s. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #2: Fri Apr 16 22:37:03 CEST 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message