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Bug#232984: apt-get space useage estimates appear over-optimistic



On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Ross Boylan wrote:

> This is on a single-user system that was not connected to the internet
> (i.e., no mail) during the session.
>
> Despite the projected 2077kB to be used, /usr alone grew by about 3Mg,
> with a bit of growth in / and /var as well.

New files were installed, and old files deleted, but some running program
still had the old files opened, so their space wasn't reclaimed.




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