From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Linda Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Strange case of deleting lots of files and "df" not recognizing it....(unless I umount/mount) the disk...
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:33:02 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120626023302.GD19223@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE7FDF4.6080506@tlinx.org>
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:58:12PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> This isn't that big of a deal, as I'm not close to the limit,
> but I pruned a backup disk that was at 87% full (1.5T free), down
> by 3.8T. Indeed, doing a 'du' of the disk shows space is ~6-7T (/11T)
> but df still shows 9.5T usage.
>
> I've done sync a few times, but the files were deleted almost a half an hour
> ago.
>
> So when does it actually synchronize w/o me forcing it? (I.e. umount/mount)?
As ben said, the last reference has to go away before the space is
freed. lsof is your friend.
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-26 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-25 5:58 Strange case of deleting lots of files and "df" not recognizing it....(unless I umount/mount) the disk Linda Walsh
2012-06-25 7:02 ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-06-25 20:51 ` Ben Myers
2012-06-25 22:08 ` Linda Walsh
2012-06-25 22:45 ` Ben Myers
2012-06-25 23:05 ` Linda Walsh
2012-06-26 2:33 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-06-26 7:33 ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-07-02 3:30 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-02 3:44 ` Linda Walsh
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