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 n7D3GcK1248043 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:16:48 -0500 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 59856149FBE3 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id QctMYnZTMoAZOgyz for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A838598.4000608@sandeen.net> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:16:40 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: free space of root partition decreases unaccountably by some 1024 blocks on every umount+linux shutdown References: <200908121955.07682.edvx1@systemanalysen.net> In-Reply-To: <200908121955.07682.edvx1@systemanalysen.net> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Roland Eggner Cc: SGI Project XFS mailing list 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 =85 1030 blocks from originally above 100 MB to 96 MB. > Expected change at most =B11 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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs