From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 16:37:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB08C16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:37:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227BE43D2F for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:37:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i320bIQ9097985; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:07:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: water B Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:06:15 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040331234536.52721.qmail@web41408.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040331234536.52721.qmail@web41408.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404020937.55164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.5 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 00:37:28 -0000 On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:15, water B wrote: > I got a little problem with /usr partition > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 288M 72M 193M 27% / > /dev/da0s1f 15G 13G 535M 96% /usr > /dev/da0s1e 288M 97M 168M 37% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > # du -h /usr > ... > 6.4G /usr > I have deleted some files but it does not restore the used disk. > Does anybody have an idea? It can take a while (well <1 minute) to recover the used space on deletion. Also another possibility is that a process has an open file descriptor on the data you deleted. PS you spelt freebsd-questions@ wrong. Also, I've dropped -stable as this is probably a -questions thing first and foremost. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5