At 10:45 AM 12/3/99 -0500, Charles Galpin wrote:
>I noticed /tmp (on it's own partition) was full, so I deleted a few
>things. Now du shows a reduced size, but df still thinks it's full!
...
>$ df
>Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda9 249823 249823 0 100% /tmp
...
>$ du -s /tmp
>1544 /tmp
Some process (possibly the one that created the large files you deleted
in /tmp) still has the files open. The files are no longer in the /tmp
directory, so they don't count in a du. But the space will not be
released until the last process having the files open closes them.
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David Lupo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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