From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 06:45:44 2004 Return-Path: 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 73EE416A4D2 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 06:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E91043D2D for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 06:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i4HDjPr13526; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:45:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200405171345.i4HDjPr13526@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: anderson@centtech.com (Eric Anderson) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:45:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <40A8BF13.6020703@centtech.com> from "Eric Anderson" at May 17, 2004 08:33:07 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: nelis@8ball.co.za Subject: Re: Disk full / NFS, df, and du X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 13:45:44 -0000 > > Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > > >On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 05:04, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > > > > > >>The problem I'm having is, after they do the rm's, it doesn't free the > >>disk space. df shows it still being used, but du claims their > >>directories are empty. > >> > >> > > > >Please see > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF > > > >..regarding this. Maybe a kill -HUP nfsd might help ? > > > > > Actually, no. In fact, I just did a quick test, with a 500mb file, and > as root, I deleted the 500mb, and my df doesn't report the newly freed > space - I did this locally, with no NFS in the mix.. I have softupdates > turned on, and quotas turned on (although I just recently turned on the > quotas after having this problem, so that isn't causing problems).. How long after the rm did you do the df? I have noticed that there is a time delay before df reports the updated disk statistics - in the range of a minute or two. I think I read about it in a FAQ somewhere, so, maybe the reference someone else posted will shed some light. ////jerry > > Any ideas anyone? > > Eric >