I have seen this before too, when I would create fairly large files on a samba share, then delete them, sometimes it would take a while to reclaim the space even with df, and other times, the space would come back right away. On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:30:45PM -0500, Tal Kedem wrote: > > Also, it's important to note that 'du -h' reports the appropriate amount > > of space used and that the drive appears, in all other regards, to be > > properly using the space. Is this perhaps a bug with how Windows reads > > the available space left on SMB shares? (Likely a Windows problem) > > Could be --- it sounds like some oddity in how Samba is exporting the > space, possibly due to the fact that ext2/3 reserve a static inode > table on disk. 300GB out of a 1.2TB filesystem sounds a bit much, > though --- it could be that something is getting 32-bit arithmetic > wrong in the Windows side of things, too, as we're close to wrapping > several counters once you get into the TB fs range. > > Cheers, > Stephen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users >
