On Thursday 06 October 2005 21:10, Mike McCarty wrote: > At 93%, it must have been about 7098935 blocks used. How did a > reboot free up 1017187 blocks? When deleting a file that is currently being used by a program, the disk blocks are actually not freed up until the last process that has a closed the file. Most likely one of the files you deleted was still being used. You can use lsof | grep \(deleted\) to check for that... Peter.
