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Date:      Wed, 8 Mar 2006 23:06:10 -0600 (CST)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
To:        Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: deleting files not releasing space
Message-ID:  <20060308230606.H85857@bravo.pjkh.com>
In-Reply-To: <440FB494.9060307@yahoo.com>
References:  <440FB494.9060307@yahoo.com>

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> i just deleted 100 megs of files out of my temp dir and df -h doesn't show 
> the space freed yet.  it has done this in the past and a reboot will always 
> give me my space back, but why doesn't it do it immediatly?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF



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