Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 1999 22:16:36 -0700 | From | Trever Adams <> | Subject | Re: Full disk and 2.3.x kernels. |
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Dancer wrote: > > You know that disk-blocks held by open files are not released until > those files are closed? That means, that you can remove a logfile, but > if the process still has it open the space isn't released. A write > failing usually means that the process dies or reopens the file which > ends up releasing the space (finally), and it then being available for > reallocation. > > D
Yes, I am aware of this thank you. The files I erased, in question, were C source files... they were not in use in ANY way and hadn't been for over 3 hours.
Trever
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