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On Tuesday 25 February 2003 12:06 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
> What type of filesystem are you using.
> Filesystems like Reiserfs tend to allocate a bunch of inodes when
> they're first used, and then not release them when the files are
> deleted. Sometimes, that will cause what you're seeing.
>
> When it needs disk space again, it will just use the already allocated
> inodes first.
>
> That's a very simplistic reply. But it "could" be what you're seeing.
>
> Ric
>
> Miark wrote:
> > I experienced something like that recently too, but I thought it was
> > just
> > my imagination. I think I tried using a variation on the command to pull
> > up
> > fresh numbers. For instance, if I used "df" the first time, then I used
> > "df -h"
> > the second time. (?)
> >
> > Miark
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:50:54 -0700
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>After deleting a 100 MB file, df shows no change in disk usage. Why is
> >
> > this so?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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