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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Roland Eggner <edvx1@systemanalysen.net>
Cc: SGI Project XFS mailing list <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: free space of root partition decreases unaccountably by some 1024	blocks on every umount+linux shutdown
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:16:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A838598.4000608@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908121955.07682.edvx1@systemanalysen.net>

Roland Eggner wrote:
> History which lead to actual problem
> ------------------------------------
> On July 4th I switched from kernel 2.6.29.5 to 2.6.29.6.
> 
> On July 18th I noticed the first time this unaccountable decrease of free space of my root partition /dev/hda7:
> For at least several boot-shutdown-cycles it has decreased on every cycle by some 1020 … 1030 blocks from originally above 100 MB to 96 MB.
> Expected change at most ±1 block.  Neither xfs_check nor xfs_repair -dn could detect any flaws.

Maybe I missed it in the email, but how have you ruled out the
possibility that files are simply growing, thereby using the space?

Have you compared

# ls -laR /

and/or

# du -hcx /

between a couple of boots?

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-13  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-12 17:54 free space of root partition decreases unaccountably by some 1024 blocks on every umount+linux shutdown Roland Eggner
2009-08-13  3:16 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-09-02  1:16   ` free space of root partition decreases unaccountably by some 1024 blocks on every umount+linux shutdown : additional informations Roland Eggner

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