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Old 04-15-2010, 02:23 PM   #1
RohanRNS
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File system question - free blocks


Under what circumstances would I see something like this happen (Recent Fedora, ext3)?

[rohan@box1 ~]$ df

Filesystem Total Used Free
/some/filesystem 10000 9990 0

[rohan@box1 ~]$ rm <some files on that partition>

[rohan@box1 ~]$ df

Filesystem Total Used Free
/some/filesystem 10000 9000 0

So the number of blocks in use went down, but the number free did not increase. Why?
 
Old 04-15-2010, 03:12 PM   #2
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