On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 14:03, Carey Evans wrote:
As long as there are processes accessing a file, the file itself exists
on disk. When you delete it, you remove the link from the directory
to the file itself.
Excellent explanation. I maintain that when people understand why the
POSIX
Hi again, here's the answer to my problem earlier in the week, and a new
question
Well it took only 3 days for my .xsession-errors file to grow back to
8.3GB and fill my partition again, and (as tangible evidence that I'm
slowly learning) have found the errors to be coming from a [EMAIL
Non authoritative suggestion;
sync
From the man page;
sync - synchronize data on disk with memory
Cheers Ross Drummond
On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:24, you wrote:
is there a command i can run to make the
computer realise that there's a whole lot of free space there?
At 2004-05-29T102425+1200, Roger Searle wrote:
The question: I deleted the .xsession-errors file in konqueror - not
the move to trash option, but the delete option. the machine
continued to think it had zero available space on that partition until
I restarted. (that is based on my
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Roger Searle wrote:
| The question: I deleted the .xsession-errors file in konqueror - not
| the move to trash option, but the delete option. the machine
| continued to think it had zero available space on that partition until I
| restarted.
As long
