Disc Free (df) weirdness (FC2)

[Peter Arremann]

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.

You can use lsof | grep \(deleted\) to check for that... 

Peter.