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Re: disk space / where did it go



On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:27:53PM -0400, Jason Stechschulte wrote:
> Is there something else that I'm missing and don't realize?  I just
> don't understand how there can be such a difference being reported
> between the two programs.

Check for open files - Unix doesn't actually reclaim the disk space used
by an unlinked file until no programs have it open. Something like lsof
or fuser may help you track this kind of thing down.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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