From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 27 15:46:25 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA22833 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:46:25 -0800 Received: from irbs.com ([199.182.75.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA22824 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:46:18 -0800 Received: (from jc@localhost) by irbs.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA17365; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 18:45:05 -0500 From: John Capo Message-Id: <199502272345.SAA17365@irbs.com> Subject: Re: Disappearing space in root fs. To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 18:45:02 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-current) In-Reply-To: <9502272256.AA16995@blaise.ibp.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Feb 27, 95 11:56:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1353 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ollivier Robert writes: > > > >I see it too. Are you saying that unlink(2) doesn't really work ? > > > > rename(2) doesn't really work: > > > > touch x y; mv x y > > > > leaves the previous inode of y unreferenced! > > Another sympthom is : do a make install in sbin/bin/lkm with not enough > space on it to contain all the / executables and two kernels (that is my > current situation, my root partition size is inherited from my 1.1.5.1 > setup and is only 12 MB). > > At some point it will say "No space left on device" and all the binaries > that were not installed take space till the next fsck :-( > > Easely reproductible here. That's the main reason I've never been able to > complete any 2.* "make world" :-((( I don't have the DAT/Exabyte yet that > would enable me to backup everything and reinstall so I must wait for > some decent backup device or buy a new hard drive... > I have had this problem with a small news partition for months. irbs 1# df /news Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0g 30159 28305 1854 94% /news irbs 2# umount /news irbs 3# mount /news irbs 4# df /news Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0g 30159 25964 4195 86% /news I suspect if you could unmount root the missing space would appear again. John