Bug 10830 – RPM -e is not freeing disk space in a RAID0

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Bug 10830 - RPM -e is not freeing disk space in a RAID0

Summary:	RPM -e is not freeing disk space in a RAID0

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2000-04-14 20:56 EDT by sheflug
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-05-14 10:25:48 EDT
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Description sheflug 2000-04-14 20:56:01 EDT

It looks like 'rpm -e' is not freeing space when packeges are deleted. I
have a root filesystem mounted in a RAID0 (/dev/md0) and when a package is
deleted with 'rpm -e' the corresponding disk space is not freed according
to 'df'. Everything else seems to work. When erasing files with 'rm', df
correctly displays the bigger available space. Does someone know if
either "rpm" or "md0 driver" or "df" has a bug ? Any help would be very
much appreciated.

Ximenes Resende
http://cv-2-8.campusview.indiana.edu/~ximenes/

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-04-17 11:08:59 EDT

If they are libraries that are in use, the disk space won't
be freed until the last program that uses those libraries
has finished.

Or are you seeing something else?

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2000-05-11 12:49:59 EDT

Without knowing what packages are/were involved, it's gonna be hard to
analyze whether libraries were involved or not. What packages? Do the
packages have libraries?

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2000-05-14 10:25:59 EDT

Closed for lack of input. Please feel free to reopen.

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