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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:05:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>
To: Craig Johnston <caj@praline.no.neosoft.com>
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Subject: Re: full file system: df and du disagree - why?
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On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Craig Johnston wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Charles Owens wrote:
> 
> > A 'du -ks /var' showed that only 11 out of 60 megs were in use, so I
> > _knew_ that there was plenty of free space.  But, df didn't think so, and
> > the kernel apparantly didn't think so either, as writes to /var still
> > produced a filesystem full error. 
> 
> Some process has a file that has been rm'ed open, likely.  The file is not
> actually deleted until the last process that has it open closes it.  Du will
> report the space as unused, df will report correctly.
> 
> Craig A. Johnston, Applications Engineer, NeoSoft, Inc.
> caj@neosoft.com  phone:(504)539 9235  fax:(504)539 9236

Thanks!  Could you define "rm'd open" ?

Thanks,
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