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From: cgd@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: disk space in-use bug?
Date: 9 Apr 93 05:49:00
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu's message of 9 Apr 1993 12:10:18 GMT
In article <1q3p3a$6eq@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) writes:
> I'm running at patch level 0.2.1. I notice that when I delete files
>from my root filesystem df soesn't report any change at all in the number of
>blocks in use/available.
which files in particular? if a file is being used (i.e. a program
has it open, either to read/write from, or because it's a running
binary), it won't actually be removed until it is no longer in use.
>Rebooting 'forces' the correct block count to be displayed
>but then it doesn't seem to change again after that.
when you reboot, everything stops using the files in question,
and so they're finally "let go" by the system... 8-)
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass