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Hi, |
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Here's a bit of a puzzle for me... |
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I've got an 40G LVM partition with empty reiserfs on it. |
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Then I've started rtorrent using this fs as a storage and added two 50G |
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torrents to it. |
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Rtorrent had no problems with the fact that partition is smaller than |
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either of them and created all the downloaded files as sparse, so that |
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"du -s --apparent-size" showed 100G. |
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df reported that fs is still empty. |
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Few days passed and some data actually hit the file system. |
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Knowing that it can't handle that much of data I've downloaded files |
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selectively, pushing completed ones to another fs, leaving a symlink in |
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their place. |
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df now shows that only 5G is free but "du -s" says that files occupy |
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15G and apparent size is 65G. |
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I've moved 5G worth of them and du now reports 10G/60G, while df still |
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shows that only 5G left (and decreasing). |
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Now I know that df can actually show weird results sometimes but I |
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wonder why (re)moving files from a file system doesn't affect it's |
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output at all. |
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Do I really have 5G there which will be depleted soon and there's |
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nothing I can do to help it? |
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If not, how come anyone trusts df output at all when it can report |
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almost-empty fs to be almost-full? |
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Wonder if anyone can make things a bit more clear for me here. |
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Thanks. |
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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net |
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