From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 27 16:16:10 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA23854 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:16:10 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA23848 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:16:05 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA04156; Mon, 27 Feb 95 17:08:46 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502280008.AA04156@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Disappearing space in root fs. To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 17:08:45 MST Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, phk@ref.tfs.com In-Reply-To: <199502272041.HAA18058@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 28, 95 07:41:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > fsck tells me that vipw unlinks the previous copies pwd.db and spwd.db. > fstat tells me that nothing normally has these files open before or after! > ktrace tells me that vipw and its descendants aren't doing anything > special to the database files. > > I'm not running YP or non-default encryption. The problem is easy to > duplicate - just run vipw and change something. Apparently the cache changes mean that they aren't LRU'ed out. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.