On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:38:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > However, realize that some programs create a file /tmp and then promptly
> > unlink it, thus causing the file to take up space even though it does
> > not have a directory entry.
>
> How's that?
UNIX does not deallocate disk space until all opens are closed.
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