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[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Wed, December 21, 2005 10:37 pm, brad.mugleston at comcast.net said:
>>
>> Remember that reclaimed space may not show up in a "du -h" command
>> until ALL programs using that directory terminate or close their open
>> file handles to that filesystem.  The surest way of doing that is to
>> reboot or do use "lsof" or "fuser" to identify processes with open
>> file descriptors on the filesystem in question and shutting down those
>> processes.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
>> - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
>
> Wow, that really helps - thanks.  I'll have to play with lsof and
> fuser to see how it works.

What about just typing

sync

as root? Doesn't that force flushing, thus showing the disk usage? Am I
wrong (again, still, some more)?

Karl

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