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Re: sofware raid does not show the full partition size on disk



also sprach Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com> [2009.06.11.1511 +0200]:
> ~# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md2              953M  519M  435M  55% /
> tmpfs                 237M     0  237M   0% /lib/init/rw
> tmpfs                 237M     0  237M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/md1              221M   11M  199M   6% /boot
> /dev/md4              953M   39M  914M   5% /home
> /dev/md5              1.9G  1.6M  1.9G   1% /tmp
> /dev/md3              4.7G  1.1G  3.7G  23% /usr
> /dev/md6               27G   23G  4.3G  85% /var
> 
> Why is this?
> 
> How Can I reclaim the other 40GB of space onmy system on software raid?

I assume that this is due to open file descriptors; Linux frees
diskspace only after a file descriptor is closed, not when the file
is unlinked from a directory.

Does it persist after a reboot?

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