From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 7:23: 3 2003 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 EAC3837B405 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from east.ath.cx (catv-50622a7a.nyircatv.broadband.hu [80.98.42.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA1C43ED1 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:23:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from witch@kronos.HomeUnix.com) X-Complaints-To: abuse@kronos.homeunix.com X-SMTP-Authenticated: CRAM-MD5 X-Message-Flag: Ditch the crappy mail client and get a real one! Received: from slave.kronos.homeunix.com (y6g6e2mlixjwwg35@slave.kronos.homeunix.com [10.1.1.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by east.ath.cx (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h07FMrRI089214 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:22:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from witch@slave.east.ath.cx) Received: from slave.east.ath.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slave.kronos.homeunix.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h07FMrOS015367 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:22:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from witch@slave.east.ath.cx) X-Authentication-Warning: slave.east.ath.cx: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be slave.east.ath.cx Received: (from witch@localhost) by slave.east.ath.cx (8.12.7/8.12.6/Submit) id h07FMmbO015317; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:22:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:22:48 +0100 (CET) From: Andrew Prewett Reply-To: Andrew Prewett To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: flush? In-Reply-To: <200301060547.H065LMS20091@asarian-host.net> Message-ID: <20030107162007.O14422@slave.east.ath.cx> References: <200301052107.H05L7PS51182@asarian-host.net> <20030105211245.619d305e.fearow@attbi.com> <200301060547.H065LMS20091@asarian-host.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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