Hello, On Thu 30-01-14 21:12:09, jupiter wrote: > I am not sure if it is file system issue or df issue. I am running on > CentOS, in both ext3 and ext4 when file system is full, deleting data > / files to evacuate space won't immediate be effective in df command, > the df won't display correct free space value until reboot the > machine. > > Many posts talking about that because some processes still seize the > deleted data or files, I don't see it is true. The files I deleted > were not used by any processes, but the df would sitll display the > same old free space value before deleting the files. That's strange. So do you say that if you do: df dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=1M count=1 df rm /file df Then the second and the third output are the same? Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html