On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Paola Sala wrote:
> patches installed. I have just noticed that every time I update the
> glibc packages, some disk space (a few Mbytes) gets lost, despite
Did you reboot after installing the packages? Ordinarily this isn't
necessary (and it doesn't affect functionality), however, Linux cannot
reclaim the disk space used by a file until all the programs using that
file have closed it. With the libc, this doesn't happen until you reboot,
because every program always has them open. Updating a library cannot
update already running programs, therefore, it is always a good idea to
reboot whenever you update your libc, libm, or other such "universal"
libraries, otherwise you are not gaining the full benefit of your update
and you may waste space. It's not necessary for libraries which are not
always in use (such as the X windows libraries, where you could just
restart X, for example).
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