Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:44:50 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Honest Qiao <honestqiao@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE : rm swapfile after swapoff can't release the disk space Message-ID: <200610041744.50978.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <BAY103-F25DF6DB073E8D1F50E5F6BD21D0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY103-F25DF6DB073E8D1F50E5F6BD21D0@phx.gbl>
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On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:55, Honest Qiao wrote: > Description: > Several months ago , I read the follow article, and add a 12G swapfile. > The article url is > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space >.html > > The swapfile is /usr/swap0 , and I have a swap mount which size is 2G. > top show: > Swap: 14G Total, 14G Free > > Today , I use swapoff /usr/swap0 to disable swapfile , and then rm > /usr/swap0. > /usr/swap0 was deleted, but its disk space can't release. Only the filename(/usr/swap0) is deleted and that's because there are references to it. mdconfig -l to see which /dev/md[0-9] is attached to the file mdconfig -d -u unit to delete the md [snip]
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