On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, wward wrote:
> My system informed me that I had no space left in the root filesystem.
> So, I removed a bunch of files totaling about 20meg. When I did a "df"
> the filesystem still shows no space available. Where is the space
> I freed-up?
It is still in use by whatever program had the file(s) open. The file is
not actually removed from disk until the program exits. This is how many
programs create "invisible" temporary files -- they create a new file,
leave it open, then do an "unlink" to remove it from the directory. But
the file is still there, and will stay there until they close it, at which
point it will automagically be deleted from disk.
Reminds me of the time a runaway server left me with a 50mb
/var/log/messages file, with the corequisite mess of 100% disk full on the
/var partition. So of course I did "rm /var/log/messages" and then did a
"df" and... err... still 100% full. Dummy! I kicked myself, killed
"syslogd" (the system logger, which of course still had the log file
open), and my 50mb "magically" got freed. (Then I restarted "syslogd" so
that all those bloody messages would keep off the main console :-).
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Consultants
Systems Specialist Educational Administration Solutions
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