From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 08:30:05 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 CFF0216A4CE for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 08:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DAE43D49 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 08:30:00 -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 i4HFTqc13994; Mon, 17 May 2004 11:29:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200405171529.i4HFTqc13994@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: anderson@centtech.com (Eric Anderson) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:29:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <40A8C477.80704@centtech.com> from "Eric Anderson" at May 17, 2004 08:56:07 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Jerry McAllister 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 15:30:05 -0000 > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >>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. > > > This particular time I waited a few minutes, but I have waited 1.5 days > for the other data to disappear. I end up rebooting the server, which > ends up fsck'ing the disk with lots of unreferenced inodes or some such > thing.. I get my space back, but a reboot is needed.. not good. OK. It is well beyond that possibility then. Someone suggested a disk-full bug in softupdates. Maybe there is. I haven't over filled a partition on soft-updates yet so, haven't been there. Good luck, ////jerry > > Eric >