Re: Query about .xsession-errors file
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:36:42AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Before seeing the above message, after someone previously saying that
> deleting the file would not cause any (extra) problems, but would not
> free up disc space, I deleted the file, then ran "Empty Trash Can",
> but, no disc space was freed, then, subsequently, I observed that a
> new file had been created;
> .xsession-errors.old
> with a size of about 33kB, and so I overwrote that, as described
> above, and that reduced its size to zero, but, I now do not have the
> original file with which to do that, and, I have about 750MB of
> missing disc space.
>
> I have had to move files off the HDD, to make it usable (it does not
> work with no free space, which is what the file did to it).
>
> Does a way exist, for me to reclaim the vanished disc space, without
> having to reboot the computer?
So you are saying that with the .xsession-errors at zero size hasn't
reclaimed the disk space?
What does df -h show?
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