From: Linda Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>
To: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: FYI: better workaround for updating 'df' info after 'rm' on xfs-vols
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:47:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <512C4C7A.60002@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130226045038.GN5551@dastard>
>> Someone suggested cat [1|3] >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.
>
> echo, not cat. It does work every time, whether you see anything
> obvious or not. And if you want to reclaim inodes, then you want
> "echo 2 > ..."
----
Erk...meant echo... too much draino on the braino
(doesn't 3 include '2'? I thought it was a bit mask?)
> freeze/thaw should do what you want without affecting anything
> running on the fs at all.
---
Thanks... will have to remember / script that ..
Have seen the space not drop for hours!....(literally)..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-26 5:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-26 1:41 FYI: better workaround for updating 'df' info after 'rm' on xfs-vols Linda Walsh
2013-02-26 4:50 ` Dave Chinner
2013-02-26 5:47 ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2013-02-26 20:54 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-02 18:17 ` Linda Walsh
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