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Today's Topics:

1. Re: LVM - free space not altering (David Smith)
2. Re: LVM - free space not altering (Neil Fraser)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:28:59 +0000
From: David Smith <David.Smith@imgtec.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] LVM - free space not altering
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> From: Bristol [mailto:bristol-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of
> Peter Hemmings
> On 22/03/16 10:39, Amias Channer wrote:
> > Hello Peter,
> >
> > It can take a little time for free space to show up in df output, also
> > be aware of rounding issues causing the values not to change as much
> > as you might expect.
>
> OK but I did remove over a GB!

Also, if you delete a file that a process still has open, the disk space isn't reallocated until the process closes that file. Especially relevant for large logfiles...



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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:53:58 +0000
From: Neil Fraser <nfraser@nadtechnology.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] LVM - free space not altering
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Hi

If you have deleted from the GUI (rather than the command line) then the
files will be in the "Recycle Bin" and still taking up space.

HTH

Neil

On 22 March 2016 at 10:32, Peter Hemmings <peternsomerset@virginmedia.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have fc23 with lvm on my laptop and was investigating some problems
> running wordpress locally and found I had my /home almost full.
> This prompted the following:
>
> What happens when /home gets full!, does it fail or start to use "home"
> on my root LV?
>
> As my /home was full I deleted about 2GB from my Download directory BUT
> the free space did not alter!
>
> I expanded the LV by a few GB's and removed more old iso's from my
> "Download" directory. but again I get no change in my free space.
>
> Any ideas why this is happening?
>
> FYI:
>
> lvm> pvscan
> PV /dev/sda3 VG fedora_laptop lvm2 [97.65 GiB / 27.13 GiB free]
> PV /dev/sda5 VG fedora lvm2 [70.46 GiB / 8.46 GiB free]
> Total: 2 [168.11 GiB] / in use: 2 [168.11 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
> lvm> vgscan
> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
> Found volume group "fedora" using metadata type lvm2
> Found volume group "fedora_laptop" using metadata type lvm2
> lvm> lvscan
> ACTIVE '/dev/fedora/root' [60.00 GiB] inherit
> ACTIVE '/dev/fedora/swap' [2.00 GiB] inherit
> ACTIVE '/dev/fedora_laptop/home' [70.52 GiB] inherit
> lvm>
>
> (parted) print all
> Model: ATA WDC WD2500BEVT-0 (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> Disk Flags:
>
> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
> 1 1049kB 37.5GB 37.5GB primary ntfs boot
> 2 37.5GB 38.0GB 524MB primary ext4
> 3 38.0GB 143GB 105GB primary lvm
> 4 143GB 250GB 107GB extended
> 5 143GB 219GB 75.7GB logical lvm
>
>
> (parted)
>
>
> Regards
> --
> Peter H
>
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