thanks, that was it.
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, David E. Lupo wrote:
> 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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