> After deleting a 100 MB file, df shows no change in disk usage. Why is this so?
The typical canonical answer is that some process still has the file open, and if so the file is not totally unlinked (deleted) until once the file is closed and the process owning the file releases its tie to the file. At least that was seemingly the right answer on ext2 and many other filesystems. Perhaps reiserfs is different. FWIW I thought I read some where that Reiserfs doesn't use inodes, if I do 'df -i' only one mount point (/var, which is ext3) uses inodes. OTOH, if I 'ls -li' a set of files in /home (which is reiserfs) I see inode numbers. Maybe they're something else?
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