Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:14:37 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Glenn Hunt <ghunt@emx.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating Free Block List Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980115211349.24234B-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <199801151841.SAA25300@emxmain>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Glenn Hunt wrote: > I am running 2.2.5-RELEASE on a Pentium 100, 40MB RAM, 1GB IDE HDD > as a firewall. On my /var filesystem, temp files are created and > deleted, but when they are deleted, the free block list is not > updated. If I use 'df', it will say that there are 5,100 blocks > used, but when I run 'du' in the /var directory, it only shows 3,000 > block used. The number using 'df' seems to continue to grow, until > eventually it thinks the filesystem is full, and it stops accepting > mail, etc. Only a reboot solves this problem. What am I missing. I > have compiled the standard kernel, except that I have configured an > extra network card. > > Glenn Hunt > ghunt@emx.ca > It may be that the files you're deleting are being accessed by a process. If a file is open and you attempt to delete it, its entry in the directory structure will disappear, but the file will remain on disk until the last process using it will close it. Nadav
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