On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:58, Sewell, Cassandra D (Cassandra) wrote: > Then are we saying this is possibly a problem in Linux in general, and has never been fixed. Its not a problem. Its a feature of Unix (not just Linux) filesystem semantics. > The strange thing about it is that we had no applications running, and the space was > not freed-up/reclaimed until a system reboot was done (re-reading of the info from the drive). This sounds unlikely - if that is actually the case you have a different problem. If you can reproduce this use lsof (or fuser) and find if any processes have large open files on the filesystem. > Evidently the df command uses the local copy and the du gets the info > directly off disk. Is that a correct assumption? No - df tells you about filesystems. du tells you about directory trees. Deleted files do not appear in directory trees but are still part of the filesystem. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@InTechnology.co.uk ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
