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Date:      Mon,  5 Jul 1999 17:43:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      kientzle@acm.org
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   kern/12527: Deleting a large file loses disk space
Message-ID:  <19990706004356.B66AD14DF1@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         12527
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Deleting a large file loses disk space
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul  5 17:50:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tim Kientzle
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
Independent
>Environment:
FreeBSD clover.kientzle.com 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #10: Thu Jul  1 13:48:43 PDT 1999     root@clover.kientzle.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CLOVER  i386
>Description:
I created a large file (approximately 3.6 gigabytes) on a UFS
partition.  After using 'rm' to remove the file, I noted
the following discrepancy:

df /usr showed 8 gigabytes of disk space used
du -x /usr shows only 4.5 gigabytes of disk space used

I expect some discrepancy between the two, but this seems a
bit excessive. ;-)

>How-To-Repeat:
Unfortunately, I no longer have enough free disk space
to check whether a large file built with 'dd' will
reproduce this problem.

I'm hoping that 'fsck' can correct it.

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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