Disk full / NFS, df, and du

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Nelis Lamprecht wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 05:04, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>The problem I'm having is, after they do the rm's, it doesn't free the 
> >>disk space.  df shows it still being used, but du claims their 
> >>directories are empty. 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Please see 
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF
> >
> >..regarding this. Maybe a kill -HUP nfsd might help ?
> >  
> >
> Actually, no.  In fact, I just did a quick test, with a 500mb file, and 
> as root, I deleted the 500mb, and my df doesn't report the newly freed 
> space - I did this locally, with no NFS in the mix..  I have softupdates 
> turned on, and quotas turned on (although I just recently turned on the 
> quotas after having this problem, so that isn't causing problems).. 

How long after the rm did you do the df?   I have noticed that there
is a time delay before df reports the updated disk statistics - in the 
range of a minute or two.  I think I read about it in a FAQ somewhere, 
so, maybe the reference someone else posted will shed some light.

////jerry

> 
> Any ideas anyone?
> 
> Eric
>