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- From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
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- Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of df and /tmp
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.080144.17193@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 08:01:44 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.152235.20345@news.uakron.edu>
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- Reply-To: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
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- > The suggested solution is to unmount
- > /tmp file system and to run 'newfs'.
-
- DEC said that? Shock horror!
-
- 1. If a process is hanging on to a file it will indeed use up space
- without being visible. But you wouldn't be able to unmount until
- the process closed the file, at which point the file would be
- deleted and release the space anyway.
-
- 2. It IS possible for a file to remain allocated with no directory
- entry and no process using it. But if this does happen, "fsck" will
- clear up the mess - that is what it is for. "newfs" is severe
- overkill!
-
-
- Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
- University of Cambridge Computer Lab
- Cambridge UK
-