From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q5Q2X5BD046759 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:33:05 -0500 Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.141]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 1Y0b8t3727W5EgBZ for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:33:02 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: Strange case of deleting lots of files and "df" not recognizing it....(unless I umount/mount) the disk... Message-ID: <20120626023302.GD19223@dastard> References: <4FE7FDF4.6080506@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FE7FDF4.6080506@tlinx.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Linda Walsh Cc: xfs-oss 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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs