On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 05:41:09PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > Some time ago I reported that after I deleted > some large amount of space from one of my xfs volumes, > 'df' still showed the original, pre-delete space, though > 'du' only showed the expected amount. Sure, because unlinked files might not have their second phase of processing (which releases the disk space) done immediately. > Mentioned that I had tried 'sync' to no avail, and had > only found umount/mount to cause the figures to synchronize. sync doesn't cause unlinked inodes to be reclaimed and processed, unlike remount,ro, unmount or freeze. > Someone suggested cat [1|3] >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. echo, not cat. It does work every time, whether you see anything obvious or not. And if you want to reclaim inodes, then you want "echo 2 > ..." > seemed to do the trick and cause the disk space to update without > me having to stop processes with FD's open on the vol. freeze/thaw should do what you want without affecting anything running on the fs at all. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
