Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 21:25:33 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>, "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: so where did the space go? Message-ID: <9780000.996974733@vpn63.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010804140247.C17715@buddha.home.automagic.org> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D3A@l04.research.kpn.com> <E15IUj2-0006Hf-00@rip.psg.com> <20010802222556.C28622@toldme.com> <E15Sygd-0002AD-00@roam.psg.com> <20010804140247.C17715@buddha.home.automagic.org>
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On Saturday, August 04, 2001 14:02:47 -0400, Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> wrote:, ad +----- | Assuming $2 are process numbers [1], I think you may find killing those | processes will release the space. +--->8 They are process IDs. Those are actually threads in the Linux emulator, and the real problem is that vmware is running with a virtual disk in either temporary or logging mode. When the vmware session is shut down, the file will go away (possibly after prompting as to whether to commit the log or not). (The logging mode is an extremely useful tool for testing, by the way; do an install within vmware to your baseline state, then do tests in logging mode and roll them back if necessary to restore the baseline.) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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