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SubjectRe: e2fs + large disk == slug?
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 03:38:55PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> I would hope Linux never does this optimization. I tend to do things like:
>
> rm -rf <dir>; df
>
> expecting df to be accurate immediately after the delete.

This reminds me, by default, GNU df syncs data before checking the free
block counts, you can disable this using --no-sync, but it would be nicer to
default to not doing a sync unless explicitly required (eg. --sync).

When deleting gobs of data (i.e. trashing a news spool) doing 'df' to check
progress is damned handy....



-cw

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