Nope, "sync" won't do it. ;) I can sync all I want, but df (and dd, effectively, by adding the "deleted" size to its image) keeps reporting the added size (which is considerable: about 4 G extra) to the partition, and only falls back to the true value after a while. Besides, being in disk-cache would not itself adversely affect dd.
I managed to "solve" it now by just adding a 5 min sleep period in-between dumps, but, obviously, that is a crappy solution. - Mark System Administrator Asarian-host.org --- "If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:12 AM Subject: Re: flush? > sync? > > `Anti` > > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:19 +0100 > Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I use dump to make a backup, I noticed that a very large file > > (several G), which had just been moved off the partition (several > > seconds before), seems to have been backup-ed by dump after all. Or, I > > should say, its size seems to be added to the dump-file, making my > > backup of that partition several G larger than it should be. > > > > This must be some sort of caching problem, as I already saw this once > > before, on using df, where df, for a while thereafter, still shows the > > size of a partition occupied after deleting a large file, only to drop > > back to its normal indication a few seconds later. > > > > Or it could be that dump, while the file has already been deleted, just > > grows extra large because of all those blocks that have been used. :( > > > > Is there a way I can flush this cache, so dump will only use files that > > actually still exist? > > > > Thanks. > > > > - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message