Raymond H. Kraft on Fri 3/12 08:05 -0800:
> I've also noticed that df occasionally (very occasionally for me) does
> not reflect current disk utilization. When I've seen this, waiting a
> while (or certainly after a reboot) made the discrepancy disappear.
>
> Not sure why this is.
It's because a deleted file is not actually unlinked from the filesystem
until all open file desriptors for it have been closed. Thus if you eg
delete libbz2 while you are using bzip2, you will not see the space
actually freed until bzip2 finishes.
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Scott
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