On 4 November 2010 14:04, Paul LaMadeleine
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Another common reason why a DF will be inaccurate is when and open file has 
> been deleted.
>
> The space will not be recovered until the open file is closed.
>
> This can happen a lot with log files that are opened by an application for 
> write and the log file is removed.  A restart of the application will free up 
> the space and the logs will again be written to a new file instead of the old.

That would still be accounted as used space, so ther would be no
inaccuracies in df output...
df would disagree with du but that's another story

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