ttsg@ttsg.com (Tuc) writes:

Brand new filer, 11x18G disks in the RAID-5 group.

I started copying content to it, but told it to follow links by accident.

I had gotten about 3G of content on when I stopped it. I then just did a "rm -rf /mnt/*". However :

216.231.105.197:/vol/vol1 125186456 177408 125009048 1% /mnt

# ls -lR /mnt /mnt: total 0 #

Whats taking 177K?

[Make that 177 MB ...]

Probably the block allocation map (4 bytes per 4K block on the data discs) and the inode table (128 bytes per inode).

The former, in particular, does not have its blocks deallocated just because they have reverted to being all-zero.

Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.