No free space add after removing large file
Hi, On my fs I had a file of 20gb. The free space on that fs was at that time around 1gb. But after removing the 20gb file, the freespace wasn't added :-S ? What has gone wrong and how can I 'reclaim' the free space? Thanks in advaced, Frank de Bot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No free space add after removing large file
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:37:56PM +0200, Frank de Bot wrote: Hi, On my fs I had a file of 20gb. The free space on that fs was at that time around 1gb. But after removing the 20gb file, the freespace wasn't added :-S ? What has gone wrong and how can I 'reclaim' the free space? There could be a process which has an open filehandle to this file. The file isn't deleted until all filehandles are closed. Try to install /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof and look for the open handle. E.g. lsof | grep filename Kill the process and the freespace should grow. If this doesn't work or there is no open handle try do go to single user mode an force an fsck on this fielsystem. Bye Estartu Gerhard Schmidt| Nick : estartu IRC : Estartu | Fischbachweg 3 || PGP Public Key 86856 Hiltenfingen | EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on request Germany|| pgp4Hh1xxAMEU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: No free space add after removing large file
Gerhard Schmidt wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:37:56PM +0200, Frank de Bot wrote: Hi, On my fs I had a file of 20gb. The free space on that fs was at that time around 1gb. But after removing the 20gb file, the freespace wasn't added :-S ? What has gone wrong and how can I 'reclaim' the free space? There could be a process which has an open filehandle to this file. The file isn't deleted until all filehandles are closed. Try to install /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof and look for the open handle. E.g. lsof | grep filename Kill the process and the freespace should grow. If this doesn't work or there is no open handle try do go to single user mode an force an fsck on this fielsystem. Yes, that was the cause. I got my 20gb back :-D Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No free space add after removing large file.
On my fs I had a file of 20gb. The free space on that fs was at that time around 1gb. But after removing the 20gb file, the freespace wasn't added :-S ? What has gone wrong and how can I 'reclaim' the free space? There could be a process which has an open filehandle to this file. The file isn't deleted until all filehandles are closed. Try to install /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof and look for the open handle. E.g. lsof | grep filename You can use fstat(1) from the base system, too. Kill the process and the freespace should grow. If this doesn't work or there is no open handle try do go to single user mode an force an fsck on this fielsystem. -- -jpeg. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No free space add after removing large file
Well not neccessarily. I hafve encountered the same problem on both FreeBSD and Linux systems. The thing probably is that the filesystem is not fully synced. There is a sync command in unix and I have tried it also. Sometimes it helps sometimes not. Usually there are two solutions: reboot or just wait for a while until kernel corrects the free space that is shown to the user. Anyway, I guess that it is some sort of a buffering feature of the unix systems. My regular situation for this kinda problem is when some filesystem is full and I delete and delete files but no room will appear. After a while, all the room becomes available again. Maybe somebody more familiar with kernel and filesystems can give good explanation to this feature (it definetly is not a bug as otherwise it would have been corrected long time ago). Rein Gerhard Schmidt wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:37:56PM +0200, Frank de Bot wrote: Hi, On my fs I had a file of 20gb. The free space on that fs was at that time around 1gb. But after removing the 20gb file, the freespace wasn't added :-S ? What has gone wrong and how can I 'reclaim' the free space? There could be a process which has an open filehandle to this file. The file isn't deleted until all filehandles are closed. Try to install /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof and look for the open handle. E.g. lsof | grep filename Kill the process and the freespace should grow. If this doesn't work or there is no open handle try do go to single user mode an force an fsck on this fielsystem. Bye Estartu Gerhard Schmidt| Nick : estartu IRC : Estartu | Fischbachweg 3 || PGP Public Key 86856 Hiltenfingen | EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on request Germany|| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
