Hammer filesystem removal of a file.

Antonio Huete Jiménez tuxillo at quantumachine.net
Wed Nov 19 03:47:26 PST 2014


Hi Rohit,

There must be a snapshot referencing those files and that is the  
reason why they keep using the space.
Check hammer(8) manpage on how to operate snapshots.

Best regards,
Antonio Huete

Quoting Rohit Menon <rohit.forum33 at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> Im a newbie to BSD as a whole.
> Currently my company has a backup solution implemented in dragonfly BSD
> with hammer.
> My question is simple, is there a specific way to remove a file/folder in
> hammer.
>
> The situation is like:
>
> I moved 65G data to one of my directoies /Backup under a specifc directory.
> When I removed it the the files and folders have been removed but the
> occupied space remains.
> I have done hammer cleanup and prune but to no avail.
>
>
> Can you please guide me on where Im going wrong.





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