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Autor: tempforever
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Tópicos Novos: Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space (SOLVED)
Assunto: Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space
Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
>
> On 3/15/21 6:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:28:32PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
>>> On 3/14/21 10:09 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote:
>>>> I assume you read the man page of fsck, as it's return code is what you
>>>> want to pay attention to.
>>>>
>>>> As for lsof, the correct parameters would be `lsof +aL1 /dev/sdx. It
>>>> should have thrown an error were you to use `lsof -L1`. If lsof returns
>>>> nothing, your drive is most likely corrupted.
>>> You are correct.  I used '+L' NOT '-L'.
>>>> It may also be possible that the files you removed have other
>>>> references on your file system, aka. hard links. To find them, you
>>>> would need to know the inode number, either by using `stat` or `ls -i`.
>>>> You can then find them using `find -inum`.
>>>>
>>>> Since you already removed the files, you most likely can't know the
>>>> inode number. However you could throw a `find $path -size n[cwbkMG]` to
>>>> list the files with the matching size.
>>> I'm not following you on this.  What is this going to do for me?
>>> 'find' is
>>> only going to show undeleted files.  How does this help?
>> It is possible for a single file to be hard-linked in several places
>> in the
>> file system.  If so, removing it in one place will still leave it
>> accessible
>> from another, and therefore not deleted.
>>
>> Files have reference counts to keep track of this.
>
> These files should not have any links, hard or soft.  None of the other
> files in that directory show a reference count above 1. They are backup
> files created by fsarchiver.  I'm just trying to free up space by
> deleting files from January.
>
> Marc
>



To find files last modified in January:
(adjust the dates as needed; on Mar. 19 this should locate files dated
Jan 1 - 31 but it could be off a day or so)

cd /media/archives
find -type f -mtime -78 -mtime +46 -ls


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