Daxbert wrote:
I use 4.6.2-RELEASE (wrote it in my first post :-)The /home filesystem was full (121G partition on a 3ware escalade raid) So i deleted 7G, but df did not show any difference. The fs is mounted w/ soft-updates. I issued a sync command, but still no change. The files were no longer shown in ls, but space was not freed. So i decided to reboot, to make sure that the deleted files are not still opened by some process. The shutdown went normal, but at the end it said: sysncing disks.. 3321 3321 3321 3316 ..... giving up on 1 buffers. When rebooting, all fs were unclean and i had to wait the usual 20 minutes for fsck to complete.I've seen the same 'df' situation when softupdates are enabled, but I've never tried to resolve the problem with a reboot. I just ignore the 'df' output, and proceed normally. After some time passes, 'df' returns to reporting the expected values. I've always thought this was normal with softupdates. However, I've not had your problem with the fsck, but then again... I've not rebooted soon after deleting 7GB of data from a file system. What are you running? 4.6.2, 4.7, -current?
The problem was not only the 'df' output, but that i actually i could not create any files! (disk full)
My main question is: Why did the sysnc on shutdown not succeed, leaving all my fs dirty?
Heinrich
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