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    When I remove files from a ramfs the space is not reclaimed?
    What am I doing wrong? Details below.

    thanks,
    Padraig.
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    host:/root# uname -a
    Linux host 2.4.12-ac3 #5 Fri Oct 19 12:52:10 IST 2001 i686 unknown

    host:/root# df
    Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/root 58997 47112 8839 84% /
    ramfs 63524 3360 60164 5% /var

    host:/root# dd if=/dev/zero count=20000 bs=1024 of=/tmp/leak
    20000+0 records in
    20000+0 records out

    host:/root# df
    Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/root 58997 47112 8839 84% /
    ramfs 63524 23360 40164 37% /var

    host:/root# rm /tmp/leak

    host:/root# df
    Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/root 58997 47112 8839 84% /
    ramfs 63524 23360 40164 37% /var

    host:/root# mount
    /dev/root on / type ext2 (ro)
    proc on /proc type proc (rw)
    ramfs on /var type ramfs (rw,noexec)

    host:/root# cat /proc/meminfo
    total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
    Mem: 130097152 48156672 81940480 49152 2990080 16277504
    Swap: 0 0 0
    MemTotal: 127048 kB
    MemFree: 80020 kB
    MemShared: 48 kB
    Buffers: 2920 kB
    Cached: 15896 kB
    SwapCached: 0 kB
    Active: 1760 kB
    Inact_dirty: 17104 kB
    Inact_clean: 0 kB
    Inact_target: 26200 kB
    HighTotal: 0 kB
    HighFree: 0 kB
    LowTotal: 127048 kB
    LowFree: 80020 kB
    SwapTotal: 0 kB
    SwapFree: 0 kB

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