/ full?

[Dustin Decker]

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> I've definitely seen a problem similar to this in linux.  When deleting 
> large files to clear space on nearly full partitions, there is a very 
> definite lag between actually deleting the file, and when df shows free 
> space on the drive.  I haven't tried to measure this lag accurately, but 
> it is longer than a minute or two, and shorter than a day or so (running 
> df after rm doesn't show the new free space, but it's available when I 
> check back the next day...probably a low-priority background task that 
> frees unused disk blocks every so often).

I wonder if issuing "sync" would perhaps clean up such a problem?
D.

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