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Re: Full Hard Disk ?



On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 stephen@cormac.office.netpresto.co.uk wrote:

> The files definitely aren't in use. I deleted about 20M of archived
> RFC's and other junk that I don't need on that system, but I don't
> get any space back.

If a program/daemon is open, and the libraries it is using are deleted,
without the program being restarted, the kernel won't be able to free the
space used by the libraries, and you won't be able to account for the loss of
space.  Restart any daemon that has been running for a long time.


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