Why are du -h / du / df / df -h not refreshing when extracting a large file
I am running tar in the background, eg:
tar xfvz large_file.tar.gz &
It does extract my file, but when I then launch du -h, du, df or df -h, the output remains the same, and I have to wait few minutes for it to refresh.
Is there any workaround? That's not really a problem, I am asking this for my own Unix culture about du & df & so on.
filesystems mount kernel disk-usage
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I am running tar in the background, eg:
tar xfvz large_file.tar.gz &
It does extract my file, but when I then launch du -h, du, df or df -h, the output remains the same, and I have to wait few minutes for it to refresh.
Is there any workaround? That's not really a problem, I am asking this for my own Unix culture about du & df & so on.
filesystems mount kernel disk-usage
edited Dec 12 at 8:37
Kusalananda
121k16228372
asked Dec 12 at 8:25
user325489
182
add a comment |
I am running tar in the background, eg:
tar xfvz large_file.tar.gz &
It does extract my file, but when I then launch du -h, du, df or df -h, the output remains the same, and I have to wait few minutes for it to refresh.
Is there any workaround? That's not really a problem, I am asking this for my own Unix culture about du & df & so on.
filesystems mount kernel disk-usage
edited Dec 12 at 8:37
Kusalananda
121k16228372
asked Dec 12 at 8:25
user325489
182
I am running tar in the background, eg:
tar xfvz large_file.tar.gz &
It does extract my file, but when I then launch du -h, du, df or df -h, the output remains the same, and I have to wait few minutes for it to refresh.
Is there any workaround? That's not really a problem, I am asking this for my own Unix culture about du & df & so on.
filesystems mount kernel disk-usage
filesystems mount kernel disk-usage
edited Dec 12 at 8:37
Kusalananda
121k16228372
asked Dec 12 at 8:25
user325489
182
edited Dec 12 at 8:37
Kusalananda
121k16228372
asked Dec 12 at 8:25
user325489
182
edited Dec 12 at 8:37
Kusalananda
121k16228372
edited Dec 12 at 8:37
Kusalananda
121k16228372
edited Dec 12 at 8:37
Kusalananda
121k16228372
121k16228372
asked Dec 12 at 8:25
user325489
182
asked Dec 12 at 8:25
user325489
182
asked Dec 12 at 8:25
user325489
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182
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Probably the data has not actually been written to disk yet but is still in the page cache ("dirty pages"). Check with
grep Dirty /proc/meminfo
You can try to run sync before df/du. That should force any data in the page cache to be written to disk.
edited Dec 12 at 19:47
Kusalananda
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Probably the data has not actually been written to disk yet but is still in the page cache ("dirty pages"). Check with
grep Dirty /proc/meminfo
You can try to run sync before df/du. That should force any data in the page cache to be written to disk.
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Probably the data has not actually been written to disk yet but is still in the page cache ("dirty pages"). Check with
grep Dirty /proc/meminfo
You can try to run sync before df/du. That should force any data in the page cache to be written to disk.
edited Dec 12 at 19:47
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answered Dec 12 at 19:44
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Probably the data has not actually been written to disk yet but is still in the page cache ("dirty pages"). Check with
grep Dirty /proc/meminfo
You can try to run sync before df/du. That should force any data in the page cache to be written to disk.
edited Dec 12 at 19:47
Kusalananda
121k16228372
answered Dec 12 at 19:44
WerKater
713
Probably the data has not actually been written to disk yet but is still in the page cache ("dirty pages"). Check with
grep Dirty /proc/meminfo
You can try to run sync before df/du. That should force any data in the page cache to be written to disk.
edited Dec 12 at 19:47
Kusalananda
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answered Dec 12 at 19:44
WerKater
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edited Dec 12 at 19:47
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