Robert Nichols wrote:
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.
Thanks for the reply. Good thought!
No upgrades for months.
Mike
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