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March 27, 2003 at 12:16 AM
gerry a

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by gerry a . Updated 23 years ago

Hello.

I seem to have created a problem that I’m not sure how to fix.

We had a directory containing over 100,000 files, more than 10GB in size. I needed to free up some space in that filesystem, and my intention was to copy them from the current filesystem to another, then delete the original files/directory. Once the files copied I deleted the original directory using rm -r. I’m guessing this was a bad thing to do- because df -v still shows the same amount of free blocks as it did prior to deleting the directory. I guess I should have deleted the files instead.

I tried creating a new free list by unmounting the filesystem and used fsck -s in maintenance mode, as well as a “check and repair” under scoadmin, but there was no change. It appears that the system still thinks these blocks have data in them. Any help appreciated.

Thanks…

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