Re: which files took the space
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:03:01 +1100 Andrew McGlashan
<andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
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> On 4/03/2016 3:07 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 03:03:53 +1100 Andrew McGlashan
> > <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> >> It also may have been files in the file system, but where another
> >> file system mount hides them....
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> > What does this mean? Mounts overlapping and hiding other mounts?
> >
> > Explain, please.
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> Yes, this is more likely to happen to the root file system.
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> Say you have a bunch of files in /boot, but for some reason you have a
> /boot partition that wasn't mounted when those files were created ....
> then you mount the /normal/ boot partition over it and now the other
> files are now hidden from view, but still taking up space.
So you're talking about creating files in an unmounted partition, and
then mounting it, but since file addition happened when the FS was
still in an unmounted state, the new files weren't written to the
journal?
Surely in that case the new files would simply not be registered and
act as free space (as if they had been deleted)?
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