Mike McCarty wrote:
Peter Arremann wrote:
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.
I forgot to mention... I had NO programs running except for an xterm
with a shell in it, su to root. I had closed all window, and opened
only the one. I do use GNOME with X Window to manage the windows,
however. (I suppose it might have been a gnome-terminal.)
If you had recently upgraded a large software package, perhaps the
xorg-x11 suite, and still had the old version executing, then all of
the old, deleted files will still consume disk space until the
currently running program exits.
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