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Old 09-03-2007
size is not changing
Hello everbody,

I am facing this weird issue on my alpha server running tru64.
I have a mount point "/data/BILLING/bscsprod/" its size is stuck to 33214363 KB.
I copied around 5 GB of files to that directory but still same size, I delted them again but still same size??

any ideas where should I check??

Thanks alot
# 2  
Old 09-03-2007
File systems don't change size as data is added to them or deleted from them. Rather space back and forth between that states "used" and "free". Mount points that are in use never change size and should be rather small if created correctly. And directories grow but do not shrink. Is is not clear what are claiming here. Post the commands you are using together with the output that you see.
# 3  
Old 09-03-2007
Thanks for your reply Perderabo.
I was talking about the used space.
I kept getting the same output from the du command during the copy process.



Code:
root@billing4# du -sk /data/BILLING/bscsprod
56635953 /data/BILLING
root@billing4# du -sk /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
33214363 /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
root@billing4# du -sk /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
33214363 /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
root@billing4# du -sk /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
33214363 /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
root@billing4# du -sk /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
33214363 /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
root@billing4# du -sk /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
33214363 /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
root@billing4# du -sk /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
33214363 /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
root@billing4# du -sk /data/BILLING/bscsprod/
33214363 /data/BILLING/bscsprod

thanks
# 4  
Old 09-03-2007
That does seem odd. You may not be in the file system that you think you are. cd into the destination directory for the copy command and do "du -sk ." (note the difference between your first two commands.). Another possibility is that the files pre-exist and your "copy" procedure is just over-writing the pre-existing data.
 
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