Disc Free (df) weirdness (FC2)

[Mike McCarty]

Robert Nichols wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Peter Arremann wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 06 October 2005 21:10, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>
>>>> At 93%, it must have been about 7098935 blocks used. How did a
>>>> reboot free up 1017187 blocks?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When deleting a file that is currently being used by a program, the 
>>> disk blocks are actually not freed up until the last process that has 
>>> a closed the file. Most likely one of the files you deleted was still 
>>> being used.
>>
>>
>>
>> I forgot to mention... I had NO programs running except for an xterm
>> with a shell in it, su to root. I had closed all window, and opened
>> only the one. I do use GNOME with X Window to manage the windows,
>> however. (I suppose it might have been a gnome-terminal.)
> 
> 
> If you had recently upgraded a large software package, perhaps the
> xorg-x11 suite, and still had the old version executing, then all of
> the old, deleted files will still consume disk space until the
> currently running program exits.
> 

Thanks for the reply. Good thought!

No upgrades for months.

Mike
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