From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 2: 6:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F0737B540 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 02:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA88537; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:36:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:36:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Elle Yoko Suzuki Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem over capacity Message-ID: <20000720183641.J30599@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200007200804.BAA12293@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200007200804.BAA12293@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 1:04:38 -0700, Elle Yoko Suzuki wrote: > > if a filesystem gets full, or over capacity, deleting files within > the filesystem, files that are not currently open, with 'rm' should > suffice, should it not? incidentally, upon checking 'df filesystem' > after deleting files, there seems to be no change. any suggestions? > thanks, There are a couple of issues here: 1. rm doesn't necessarily remove files. As long as they are open by a process, or have other hard links, they will remain on disk. They can even grow under these circumstances. 2. Soft updates take quite a while to return the space to the file system after really deleting files. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message