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From: Flix-Antoine Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: rm/df/sync problem. cannot really know where the problem is.
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>Number:         29097
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       rm/df/sync problem. cannot really know where the problem is.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 19 21:40:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jul 20 00:35:50 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jul 20 00:36:05 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Flix-Antoine Paradis
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Unix Consult Technologies
>Environment:
FreeBSD myhost.com 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 17 12:32:30 EDT
 2001     reel@myhost.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ZEUS  i386

>Description:
Once, i had 700mb to remove from the disk to free space. I df(1)'d to
know what was the size of each partition.

Here is what i typed with resulting outputs. Give a look at /usr.

reel@zeus% df -h
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad1s1a   116M    41M    66M    38%    /
/dev/ad0s1g   311M   129K   286M     0%    /source
/dev/ad1s1e   2.3G   1.4G   697M    67%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1e   678M   337M   287M    54%    /usr/src
/dev/ad0s1f   388M   4.2M   352M     1%    /var
procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc

reel@zeus% su root
Password:
(in /usr)
su-2.05# rm -r sounds/
su-2.05# df -h
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad1s1a   116M    41M    66M    38%    /
/dev/ad0s1g   311M   129K   286M     0%    /source
/dev/ad1s1e   2.3G   1.4G   697M    67%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1e   678M   337M   287M    54%    /usr/src
/dev/ad0s1f   388M   4.2M   352M     1%    /var
procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc
su-2.05# sync
su-2.05# df -h
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad1s1a   116M    41M    66M    38%    /
/dev/ad0s1g   311M   129K   286M     0%    /source
/dev/ad1s1e   2.3G  1015M   1.1G    48%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1e   678M   337M   287M    54%    /usr/src
/dev/ad0s1f   388M   4.1M   352M     1%    /var
procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc

is that normal?
i need to sync to know the real size of my partitions?
>How-To-Repeat:
Same distro/release date. Try to remove a big directory from a disk.
>Fix:
No. maybe it's an error with the buffer size or such. So many informations
kept in cache without being written to disk naturally. That's odd.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To: F lix-Antoine Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/29097: rm/df/sync problem. cannot really know where the problem is. 
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:45:21 +1000

 [This sort of question is best posted to questions@freebsd.org rather tha=
 n
 cluttering up the GNATS pr database.]
 
 > is that normal?
 > i need to sync to know the real size of my partitions?
 
 This is one of the side-effects of running softupdates.
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: dd 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jul 20 00:35:50 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is expected behavior.  besides, questions like this don't belong 
in the pr database. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29097 
>Unformatted:
