From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Poulin?= Subject: Re: df reports used space gradually growing. Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:05:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <675178.67834.qm@web58804.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: <675178.67834.qm-MMAiOCDKa4SB9c0Qi4KiSlZ8N9CAUha/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: eric225125-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: NILFS Users mailing list 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 have > been very impressed with the improvements in write speed.=A0 However, I j= ust > noticed that df reports I am using 25GB when there is only about 13GB of > data on the disk.=A0 The 13GB size agrees with du and the size of my daily > ext2 backup.=A0 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?=A0 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.