Peter Arremann wrote:
On Thursday 06 October 2005 21:29, 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.)
Just because you don't run them, doesn't mean that you don't have a bunch of
programs running. just do a ps -ef and you'll see how much there is - even on
an idle system you often have a few dozen processes.
Yes, I am aware. But what process would have consumed about 1G, and then
deleted it, while *another* process had it also opened?
Very often people try removing /var/log/messages and are surprised they don't
get disk space back until a reboot because they forgot to restart syslogd.
I guess I'm not making myself clear, somehow.
Mike
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