Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:33:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:33:29 -0400 Received: from smtp.zapmedia.com ([64.94.5.22]:41489 "EHLO atldcsmail04.ZAPMEDIA.COM") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:33:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3B4CA943.5EC6A127@zapmedia.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:30:11 -0400 From: Shawn Veader X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: disk full or not? you decide... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hello, i am not a subscriber to the list but i need the help of anyone on the list who might have some insite into this problem. please remember to cc me on your reply. thanks! we are using reiserfs on a system running 2.4.3 (i think i put all of the relavant patches into the kernel before i built it then...) we have a partition that is used when encoding ripped songs and storing large files such as video and music. we noticed recently that the partition reported itself as being full. after a reboot the system reported having 6G freed. now again after a day of use the space has dissappered. df now returns: ---- Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 706M 229M 477M 32% / /dev/hda2 55M 36M 19M 65% /boot /dev/hda7 1.0G 95M 932M 9% /usr/local /dev/hda8 26G 22G 3.7G 85% /Assets ---- however if you run du on the /Assets dir you get: ---- 8.3G /Assets ---- does anyone know why this is happening? our guess is that the logs to reiser are getting quite large. how do we flush them and force a garbage collection? we save and remove several large files on this partition as the system is running. therefore, i figure that the space is kept around till the log is flushed in case it is needed for replaying the journal. am i totaly off? i would like to upgrade the kernel but we have several third party dependencies that keep us from doing that on a fast enough pace to keep up with the 2.4.x series. thanks again for any help that can be given. remember to cc me in responces. -- shawn veader --oOo-- linux os developer shawn.veader@zapmedia.com | http://www.zapmedia.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/