Hi, On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:55:41PM +0200, Michael Hoennig wrote: > ok, then at least lsof should report such files. Actually I forgot > something: Even after all processes holding this file handle, the storage > was never freed, only after umount/mount! Can you reproduce this? In every case where this has been reported in the past, the user has eventually discovered that there was indeed some process somewhere holding a file open. If a "df; umount; mount; df" shows a reproducible disk space leak then there's an orphan leak somewhere. Cheers, Stephen