bugs with disk space

[Steven Hartland]

Quite possible if u have deleted files which are still open. The space
will only be freed when the last process closes the file.

    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jose Hidalgo Herrera" <jose at hostarica.com>
To: <hackers at freebsd.org>
Cc: <jose at hostarica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 5:33 PM
Subject: bugs with disk space


> There is something wrong here:
> 
> srv0:~# uname -r 
> 4.9-RELEASE-p4
> 
> srv0:~# df -hi /
> Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a   126M   125M  -8.9M   108%    1364 14890    8%   /
> 
> srv0:~# du -shx /
>  36M    /
> 
> The operating system complains about free space, but I'm only using 36M,
> while the df says that I'm using 125M, the inodes are not the problem.



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