Maybe the file was opened by another user? Did you check lsof? Best,
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday, I removed a 700 MB directory over NFS with rm -rf, and > I invoke "df" several times before and after the removal, but the > "Used" value only decreased by 3 MB, including more than one hour > after the operation. > > Before: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > 26214400 8291328 17923072 32% /home/vlefevre > > After: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > 26214400 8288256 17926144 32% /home/vlefevre > > Today the value is now correct: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > 26214400 7589888 18624512 29% /home/vlefevre > > Why did it take so long? > > -- > Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121025121145.ga21...@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr > -- Pedro Eugênio Rocha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAM3FfDyUrCSqtKOZKVfCNhMu3POVtF6qrtMBWnFoWvjR2=t...@mail.gmail.com
