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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:38:13 +0100
From:      Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
To:        Daxbert <daxbert@dweebsoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: file system trouble
Message-ID:  <3E4CC715.3010809@ant.uni-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <004d01c2d41a$3dcf01d0$8a01a8c0@dweebsoft.com>
References:  <3E4CAA89.9040003@ant.uni-bremen.de> <004d01c2d41a$3dcf01d0$8a01a8c0@dweebsoft.com>

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Daxbert wrote:
>>The /home filesystem was full (121G partition on a 3ware escalade raid)
>>So i deleted 7G, but df did not show any difference. The fs is mounted w/
>>soft-updates. I issued a sync command, but still no change. The files were no
>>longer shown in ls, but space was not freed. So i decided to reboot, to make
>>sure that the deleted files are not still opened by some process.
>>The shutdown went normal, but at the end it said:
>>sysncing disks..
>>3321 3321 3321 3316 .....
>>giving up on 1 buffers.
>>When rebooting, all fs were unclean and i had to wait the usual 20 minutes for
>>fsck to complete.
> 
> 
> I've seen the same 'df' situation when softupdates are enabled, but I've never tried to resolve the problem with a reboot.  I just
> ignore the 'df' output, and proceed normally.  After some time passes, 'df' returns to reporting the expected values.  I've always
> thought this was normal with softupdates.  However, I've not had your problem with the fsck, but then again...  I've not rebooted
> soon after deleting 7GB of data from a file system.
> 
> What are you running?  4.6.2, 4.7, -current?
> 

I use 4.6.2-RELEASE (wrote it in my first post :-)
The problem was not only the 'df' output, but that i actually i could not create 
any files! (disk full)

My main question is: Why did the sysnc on shutdown not succeed, leaving all my 
fs dirty?

Heinrich


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