On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:39:05PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > For the last couple of weeks I've been having a problem with my hard > drive spontaneously "misplacing" about 20 GB of space of my primary > partition. I'll start getting out of disk space errors, do a df, and > see that I have something like 200 KB of free space. I'll shut down, > reboot, and have 20 GB of free space.
Disk space for deleted files is not truly freed until after the last open handle to the file is closed. So, it's possible that some task is continually writing to to a file that another has deleted. -- Jamin W. Collins This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
