I had this issue before , doing squid -k reconfigure or reload doesn't release cache disk. You need to do squid stop/start. 2011/3/13 Víctor José Hernández Gómez <vjhergom@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi all, > > I had planned some work on the ext3 partition used for cache data in our > squid 3.1.11 instalation, which should be unomunted and mounted after some > filesystem parameters modifications. > > So I thought it could work the following > > 1. comment cache_dir line on squid.conf > 2. add cache deny all > 3. (reconfigure) squid -k reconfigure > > (so users could navigate and ...) If squid is not using cache data at all, > then I could modify ext3 params on the partition... > > 4. work on partition > 5. umount partition > 6. mount > 7. undo changes on squid.conf and reconfigure > > This was not the case, as before I tried to unmount the partition squid > still was using swap.state file ... (lsof /partition warned me), so I had to > undo the work on partition and undo changes on squid.conf... > > What asumption was wrong? Should squid free the filedescriptor related to > swapstate file? Any other approach to get what we need? > > Thank you in advanced for your help, > -- > Víctor J. Hernández Gómez > >
