hi All, Ubuntu 12.04 and glusterfs 3.3.1. root at tipper:/data# df -h /data Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tipper:/data 2.0T 407G 1.6T 20% /data root at tipper:/data# du -sh . 10G . root at tipper:/data# du -sh /data 13G /data It's quite confused. I also tried to free up the space by stopping the machine (actually LXC VM) with no lock. After umounting the space freed up right, though it took for a long time. If I write directly to the fs, this behaviour is different. This is a zfs the volume: NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 type filesystem - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 creation Fri Feb 15 14:26 2013 - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 used 16.4G - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 available 1.98T - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 referenced 16.4G - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 compressratio 1.11x - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 mounted yes - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 quota 2T local tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 reservation none default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 recordsize 128K default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 mountpoint /tank/lxc/tipper/rootfs/mnt/brick1 local tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 sharenfs off default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 checksum on default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 compression gzip local tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 atime off inherited from tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 devices on default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 exec on default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 setuid on default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 readonly off default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 zoned off default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 snapdir hidden default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 aclinherit restricted default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 canmount on default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 xattr on default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 copies 1 default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 version 5 - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 utf8only off - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 normalization none - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 casesensitivity sensitive - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 vscan off default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 nbmand off default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 sharesmb off default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 refquota none default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 refreservation none default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 primarycache all default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 secondarycache all default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 usedbysnapshots 0 - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 usedbydataset 16.4G - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 usedbychildren 0 - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 usedbyrefreservation 0 - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 logbias latency default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 dedup on local tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 mlslabel none default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 sync standard default tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 refcompressratio 1.11x - tank/lxc/tipper/brick1 written 16.4G - Do you have any idea, why that's happened? 10x tamas