Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-31 Thread Mel
On Friday 31 October 2008 02:20:39 Brendan Hart wrote: > > Is it possible that nfs directory got written to /usr at some point in > > time? > > > You would only notice this with du if the nfs directory is unmounted. > > Unmount it and ls -al /usr/mountpoint should only give you an empty dir > > Bi

RE: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Brendan Hart
00 Fax: 08-8274-1400 -Original Message- From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 31 October 2008 12:02 PM To: Brendan Hart Cc: 'Mel'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:50:39AM +1030, Brendan Hart wrote: #: df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/aacd0s1a 496M163M 293M36%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/aacd0s1e 496M1

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:50:39AM +1030, Brendan Hart wrote: > >> #: df -h > >> Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > >> /dev/aacd0s1a 496M163M 293M36%/ > >> devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100% /dev > >> /dev/aacd0s1e 496M15

RE: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Brendan Hart
>> #: df -h >> Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on >> /dev/aacd0s1a 496M163M 293M36%/ >> devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100% /dev >> /dev/aacd0s1e 496M15M 441M3% /tmp >> /dev/aacd0s1f28G25G 1.2G

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:15:15AM +1030, Brendan Hart wrote: > > What you showed tells me nothing about SMART, other than the remote > > possibility > > its basing some of its decisions on the "general SMART health status", > > which means jack squat. I can explain why this is if need be, but

RE: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Brendan Hart
>> I took a look at using the smart tools as you suggested, but have now >> found that the disk in question is a RAID1 set on a DELL PERC 3/Di >> controller and smartctl does not appear to be the correct tool to >> access the SMART data for the individual disks. After a little >> research, I h

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Mel
On Thursday 30 October 2008 01:42:32 Brendan Hart wrote: > Hi, > > I have inherited some servers running various releases of FreeBSD and I am > having some trouble with the /usr partition on one of these boxen. > > The problem is that there appears to be far more space used on the USR > partition t

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:04:36PM +1030, Brendan Hart wrote: > On Thu 30/10/2008 12:25 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> Could the "missing" space be an indication of hardware disk issues i.e. > >> physical blocks marked as bad? > > >The simple answer is no, bad blocks would not cause what you're

RE: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-29 Thread Brendan Hart
On Thu 30/10/2008 12:25 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> Could the "missing" space be an indication of hardware disk issues i.e. >> physical blocks marked as bad? >The simple answer is no, bad blocks would not cause what you're seeing. >smartctl -a /dev/disk will help you determine if there's eviden

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:11:58PM +1030, Brendan Hart wrote: > The space reserved as minfree does not appear to have been changed from the > default setting of 8%. Okay, then that's likely not the problem. > Is your suggestion that I should change it to a larger value? That would just make your

RE: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-29 Thread Brendan Hart
er 2008 11:50 AM To: Brendan Hart Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:12:32AM +1030, Brendan Hart wrote: > I have inherited some servers running various releases of FreeBSD and I am > having some tr

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:12:32AM +1030, Brendan Hart wrote: > I have inherited some servers running various releases of FreeBSD and I am > having some trouble with the /usr partition on one of these boxen. > > The problem is that there appears to be far more space used on the USR > partition tha