On 08/03/12 16:55, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports
considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge
That's because the old files are not being deleted since they are in
use. When you logout of KDE and restart the whole stack
(/etc/init.d/xdm restart) then everything will be back to normal.
By jove, that's definitely it. I knew about this fact from other use cases
(like deleting a video file which I'm still watching. HA, do that, Windows!),
but never thought of it regarding emerging. I always assumed for some reason
that the files were kept in RAM and the physical file itself was no longer
relevant. Just closing all programs before logging out gave back around 350 M.
I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any
deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes:
"app-admin/checkrestart". I usually run it after world updates so I can
tell whether I need a restart or not.
