On Friday 11 February 2005 17:05, Botykai Zsolt wrote:
(B>
(B> Frank was right I compared the df's output after two minutes.
(B> And xfmedia is one media player but at that point it was paused (with some
(B> mp3 files).
(B> And if it was about temporary files, why they hadn't showed up with 'du'?
(B
(BIf an application holds a file open, it is not deleted from the disk even if
(Bthe directory entry has been removed. Have a look at the following:
(B
(B$ df | grep hda ; dd if=/dev/zero of=foobar count=500000 & rm foobar ; ls
(Bfoobar; for x in $(seq 1 10); do df | grep hda; sleep 1; done
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17433093 1610604 92% /
(B[1] 9666
(Bls: foobar: No such file or directory
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17445180 1598517 92% /
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17559840 1483857 93% /
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17617281 1426416 93% /
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17629618 1414079 93% /
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17651739 1391958 93% /
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17667173 1376524 93% /
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17681578 1362119 93% /
(B500000+0 records in
(B500000+0 records out
(B[1]+ Done ( dd if=/dev/zero of=foobar count=500000 )
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17433109 1610588 92% /
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17433109 1610588 92% /
(B/dev/hda1 19043697 17433109 1610588 92% /
(B
(BYou can see that the foobar's directory entry has been removed, but the disk
(Bspace usage continually increases until the file is closed.
(B
(BRegards,
(BJason Stubbs
(B
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