On Friday, April 04, 2003 12:01 AM [GMT+0800=SGT], Sewell, Cassandra D (Cassandra) <csewell@avaya.com> wrote: > I am working with ext3 w/ the 2.4.20 kernel. I recently had a > case where my root partition indicated that is was 100% full. > I was unable to create new files, etc on the system. However, > when I issued the 'du' command, the system indicated that only > 2G of the 5G drive was in usage. > > I did a dump of the FS and I see were there is an indication of > no free blocks. I decided to reboot the system, and the root > partition is now indicating only 43% full, as expected. This used to ve standard Unix behaviour, I am not aware if ext2/3 have modified this. Files are deleted when both the link count and use count are zero. If you create a 100MB file, then open and hold it open in a C program, while deleteing it from the shell in another program, the file dis-appears from the directory, but space is not freed, and the C program can go on reading it. Terminating the C program will reduce use count to zero, and disk space is reclaimed. -- Sanjeev Gupta _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
