On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:22:47AM -0400, Gustavson, John (ECSS) wrote: > We are running the 2.4.7 kernel, with a reiser LVM file system mounted at > /var. After some time, the file system starts to fill up, so we might > manually delete some files to increase the free space. After doing this, > some times the df -h command does not display the correct usage and free > space. A du command does show the change in usage. If we create a new > reiser LVM, and copy everything over, the usage and free space values > displayed are correct. Has anyone else had problems with df and reiser?
This is probably unrelated to reiserfs. Perhaps the files that you deleted are still open by a running process? The space will not be recovered until the file is closed. Since the file has no directory entry, du cannot find it. -- - mdz
