Re: Hard disk (df) reporting.
> Now I killed the process and deleted the file, but the amount of space
> used reported by df stayed the same. A du of / reported ~200Mb less, as I
> expected.
>
> "Sync" has not altered the report of df. Is this 200Mb actually freed or
> trapped still somehow?
>
probably there are still some processes, which hold the file open.
try fuser.
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