Hi, The space reserved as minfree does not appear to have been changed from the default setting of 8%. Is your suggestion that I should change it to a larger value? I don't understand how modifying it now could fix the situation, but I could be missing something.
The output of "tunefs -p /usr" is as follows: #: tunefs -p /usr tunefs: ACLs: (-a) disabled tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l) disabled tunefs: soft updates: (-n) enabled tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e) 2048 tunefs: average file size: (-f) 16384 tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s) 64 tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m) 8% tunefs: optimization preference: (-o) time tunefs: volume label: (-L) I have not observed the problem on any of the other ~dozen FreeBSD servers in our data centre. Could the "missing" space be an indication of hardware disk issues i.e. physical blocks marked as bad? Is it possible on UFS2 for disk space to be allocated but hidden somehow? (although I have been running the commands such as "du -x" as superuser) Similarly, is it possible on UFS2 for disk space to be allocated in "lost cluster chains" ? Best Regards, Brendan Hart -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:50 AM To: Brendan Hart Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:12:32AM +1030, Brendan Hart wrote: > I have inherited some servers running various releases of FreeBSD and I am > having some trouble with the /usr partition on one of these boxen. > > The problem is that there appears to be far more space used on the USR > partition than there are actual files on the partition. The utility "df -h" > reports 25GB used (i.e. nearly the whole partition), but "du -x /usr" > reports only 7.6GB of files. Have you tried playing with tunefs(8), -m flag? I can't reproduce this behaviour on any of our systems. icarus# df -k /usr Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad12s1f 167879968 1973344 152476228 1% /usr icarus# du -sx /usr 1973344 /usr eos# df -k /usr Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1f 32494668 2261670 27633426 8% /usr eos# du -sx /usr 2261670 /usr anubis# df -k /usr Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1f 80010344 1809620 71799898 2% /usr anubis# du -sx /usr 1809620 /usr horus# df -k /usr Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1f 32494668 1608458 28286638 5% /usr horus# du -sx /usr 1608458 /usr -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3567 (20081029) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3567 (20081029) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
