Re: [SLE] Strange thing with ext2.

Praise writes:

Sometimes my /home partition fills up, and only 200/300Mbyte (1%) remain free. When I free the space, burning my stuff, this space does not get back soon. I have to wait for a not so short time, or I have to remount the partition. Why is this? There is a way to get my space back earlier?

It is strange. How do you free the space? If a process P1 opens a file and the file is later removed by some other process, only the directory structure is modified and the file's inode is still kept by the kernel so that P1 can use it. When P1 finishes, the disk space is deallocated. You can check if this is the case via "lsof" which lists opened files. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se