/ full?
Dustin Decker
dustind at moon-lite.com
Sat Nov 30 21:51:44 CST 2002
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> I've definitely seen a problem similar to this in linux. When deleting
> large files to clear space on nearly full partitions, there is a very
> definite lag between actually deleting the file, and when df shows free
> space on the drive. I haven't tried to measure this lag accurately, but
> it is longer than a minute or two, and shorter than a day or so (running
> df after rm doesn't show the new free space, but it's available when I
> check back the next day...probably a low-priority background task that
> frees unused disk blocks every so often).
I wonder if issuing "sync" would perhaps clean up such a problem?
D.
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