From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 26 12:21: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.ukc.ac.uk (mercury.ukc.ac.uk [129.12.21.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A602914E1C for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:20:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ayk1@ukc.ac.uk) Received: from ash.ukc.ac.uk ([129.12.3.224]) by mercury.ukc.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10bquC-0000sM-00; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:19:00 +0100 Received: from localhost by ash.ukc.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/UKC-2.14) id UAA19543; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:20:58 +0100 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:20:58 +0100 (BST) From: Alex Reply-To: Alex To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file disappeared? In-Reply-To: <3724B897.F98426E4@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > The subject says it all: I removed a file, but according to df, it's > > > still there! > > Some running process still has the file open. As soon as that process > exits, the space will be freed. Of course... stupid me! I used vnconfig to mount the image and then unmounted it, but forgot to do a vnconfig -u... Of course, it's a bit too late now - just got a kernel panic trying to do so (not entirely unexpected - anyone want a core dump... :-) vnconfig was a one-off thing and not a running process, therefore difficult to detect. Many thanks to everyone who responded, and I do apologise for wasting your time. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message