23 Aug
2005
23 Aug
'05
2:53 p.m.
On 23 Aug 2005 13:36:54 +0100, Richard Kettlewell rjk@terraraq.org.uk wrote:
Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk writes:
Does anyone have any idea where the space went - how can it be used but not show anything using it?
Files are only actually removed from the disk when: (i) all names for them have been removed, and (ii) all processes that have them open have terminated.
So it possible for a file to continue occupying disk space even after all its names have been removed. A less drastic solution than rebooting is to kill the process(-es) that still have it open.
Or run "lsof" to find out which processes have which files open.
Tim.