Hello all! I'm running RH9 on a Sony Vaio laptop. I use ext3 for file system and 2.6.7 kernel. I'm having this puzzling problem with my free disk space. I run java based simulations which can generate pretty big files (900MB ~ 1.2GB). Lets say that I reboot the machine, using df -h I see that I have 1.4GB free disk space, and I leave it running for 4 days. In the course of 4 days I create and delete about 40 to 70 files. After deleting all the simulation related files (after 4 days of uptime) df-h reports only about 123MB free disk space. However if I run du on / I can deduce that the free space is indeed 1.4GB. If I reboot the machine df -h reports 1.4GB. My qeustion to you: what causes the discrepancy between what df and du report and how can I fix this without reboot? If I look at the df output where does my free disk space go when I delete all the files? I've tried to run updatedb to no avail of fixing this. I've also checked if /var or /tmp and other dirs get bigger and no directory seems to account for the "lost disk space". I'm suspecting this has something to do with the journaling capability of ext3. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this? If people don't have an answer but they have an idea on which list I can get help please let me know :). Thanks Rade -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
