From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryusuke Konishi Subject: Re: df reports used space gradually growing. Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:57:44 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20090727.035744.118657598.ryusuke@osrg.net> References: <675178.67834.qm@web58804.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <288232.83823.qm@web58801.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Reply-To: NILFS Users mailing list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <288232.83823.qm-GoVOXiws8HGB9c0Qi4KiSlZ8N9CAUha/QQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: users-bounces-JrjvKiOkagjYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org Errors-To: users-bounces-JrjvKiOkagjYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org To: users-JrjvKiOkagjYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, eric225125-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Hi, On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:40:08 -0700 (PDT), Eric A wrote: > You're right; nilfs_cleanered wasn't running. I've tried rebooting > and it still isn't automatically starting. I'm running 2.6.31-rc4 > and nilfs-utils-2.0.14. The following is the relevant fstab line: > = > /dev/sda2 / nilfs2 rw,noatime = 0 0 Oh, I thought the problem would be fixed with nilfs-utils-2.0.14. How does the relevant line in /proc/mounts look like? I think you can find the error which terminated cleanerd in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages. > I manually started nilfs_cleanered and have been running it for >about an hour. Conky shows disk read/writes of 1MiB every 2 seconds >or so, but I don't see any space being freed up. In fact, df still >reports a gradual filling of the disk. Eric Is is the same thing if you shorten the protection period or release snapshots ? Thanks, Ryusuke Konishi > ________________________________ > From: J=E9r=F4me Poulin > To: eric225125-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org > Cc: NILFS Users mailing list > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:05:56 PM > Subject: Re: [NILFS users] df reports used space gradually growing. > = > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Eric A wrote: > > I installed nilfs2 on my 32GB SSD for my rootfs about a week ago and ha= ve > > been very impressed with the improvements in write speed.. However, I = just > > noticed that df reports I am using 25GB when there is only about 13GB of > > data on the disk. The 13GB size agrees with du and the size of my daily > > ext2 backup. I monitored the situation over night, and the size report= ed by > > df appears to be growing by about 1-2GB a day. > > > This sounds like the nilfs_cleanerd is not running, could you check if > it appears in ps output? > = > > Is the size reported by df incorrect? What will happen when it reports= that > > the entire disk is full? > > > Depending on the version of NILFS you're using, you may be in trouble, > else, just starting nilfs_cleanerd manually should be able to free up > all the space. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users-JrjvKiOkagjYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org > https://www.nilfs.org/mailman/listinfo/users