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

[Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:43:13PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> 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.
> 
That makes sense.  And since the case with what I thought was the big
discrepancy looks OK too, this is probably a false alarm.

It's OK with me if you close it, or you can leave it to see if anyone
else notices a problem.

Thanks.