df nor FSView reporting correct free space
Hi all,
I am running Reiserfs as the file system on my Sid desktop install.
Recently I downloaded and burnt a couple of dvd iso images of Etch, and
then promptly forgot about them. When I went to run apt-get upgrade
tonight I found that I had run out of disk space on a partition of
approximately 20 gigs. So, I ran df and it reported something like 100K
of free disk space and FSView reported the same. Well, I went in and
deleted (rm filename) the two .iso images of 4.35 gigs each plus two
more 500+ mB files.
Now df reports that I have approximately 2 gigs of free space. However,
FSView reports that I have approximately 12.5 gigs of used space, or
approximately 7.5 gigs of free space. Neither seems that it could
possibly be correct as I deleted a total of more than 9 gigs worth of
files, although FSView's report is much closer to what logic says should
be available.
Disks Manager, found under Desktop -> Administration, and GParted also
report the partition as being 19.65 gigs with 2.1 gigs of free space.
The files I deleted showed up correctly using FSView and ls -al before I
deleted them, and do not appear in either format now. Anyone know how I
can recover the lost disk space? I've had similar things happen before
-- rm'ed a file and the recovered disk space didn't show up using df
until after I had rebooted. Unfortunately that didn't happen this time,
and at boot the file system is reported as clean.
I have to say that the run times for rm while deleting the files were a
very short. Normally when I delete files as large as the ones I deleted
tonight it takes some time before rm releases control of the bash
shell. Tonight it did not. It only took a couple of seconds before it
released the shell.
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