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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.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  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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