Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:22:48 +0100 (CET) From: Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: flush? Message-ID: <20030107162007.O14422@slave.east.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <200301060547.H065LMS20091@asarian-host.net> References: <200301052107.H05L7PS51182@asarian-host.net> <20030105211245.619d305e.fearow@attbi.com> <200301060547.H065LMS20091@asarian-host.net>
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On Jan 6 Mark wrote: > Nope, "sync" won't do it. ;) I can sync all I want, but df (and dd, > effectively, by adding the "deleted" size to its image) keeps reporting the > added size (which is considerable: about 4 G extra) to the partition, and > only falls back to the true value after a while. Besides, being in > disk-cache would not itself adversely affect dd. This could be the `softupdates' effect. -andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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