On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
>
> [root@Jay Giu]# du -c /home
> [...]
> 320120 /home
> 320120 total
> [root@Jay Giu]# df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda8 253823 65909 174807 27% /
> /dev/sda7 2158320 750672 1296240 37% /usr
> /dev/sda5 2193082 1898198 183474 91% /home
> /dev/sda9 1013887 899924 61586 94% /opt
>
>
> It happened after I wrote and deleted very large files (~750MB) a
> few times in my home dir.
> Then I logged out and I relogged in as root to check what happened
> and "df" shown everything was right again:
>
> /dev/sda5 2193082 320122 1761550 15% /home
>
>
> ...strange...
Was the 750M file opened by a program when it was deleted? When a file
is deleted, if it is opened, it will still be there and taking up file
space (as shown in df) until it is completely closed. However, even if
the file is opened by a process and not really deleted, the file's space
will no longer show up in du because the file can no longer be accessed
through the filesystem.
It sounds like this is what happened, and whatever program had the file
open was closed when you logged out.
Jag
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