Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:38:13 +0100 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: Daxbert <daxbert@dweebsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system trouble Message-ID: <3E4CC715.3010809@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <004d01c2d41a$3dcf01d0$8a01a8c0@dweebsoft.com> References: <3E4CAA89.9040003@ant.uni-bremen.de> <004d01c2d41a$3dcf01d0$8a01a8c0@dweebsoft.com>
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Daxbert wrote: >>The /home filesystem was full (121G partition on a 3ware escalade raid) >>So i deleted 7G, but df did not show any difference. The fs is mounted w/ >>soft-updates. I issued a sync command, but still no change. The files were no >>longer shown in ls, but space was not freed. So i decided to reboot, to make >>sure that the deleted files are not still opened by some process. >>The shutdown went normal, but at the end it said: >>sysncing disks.. >>3321 3321 3321 3316 ..... >>giving up on 1 buffers. >>When rebooting, all fs were unclean and i had to wait the usual 20 minutes for >>fsck to complete. > > > I've seen the same 'df' situation when softupdates are enabled, but I've never tried to resolve the problem with a reboot. I just > ignore the 'df' output, and proceed normally. After some time passes, 'df' returns to reporting the expected values. I've always > thought this was normal with softupdates. However, I've not had your problem with the fsck, but then again... I've not rebooted > soon after deleting 7GB of data from a file system. > > What are you running? 4.6.2, 4.7, -current? > I use 4.6.2-RELEASE (wrote it in my first post :-) The problem was not only the 'df' output, but that i actually i could not create any files! (disk full) My main question is: Why did the sysnc on shutdown not succeed, leaving all my fs dirty? Heinrich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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