Temporary disk space leak

[root@Jay Giu]# du -c /home
[...]
320120 /home
320120 total
[root@Jay Giu]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda8               253823     65909    174807  27% /
/dev/sda7              2158320    750672   1296240  37% /usr
/dev/sda5              2193082   1898198    183474  91% /home
/dev/sda9              1013887    899924     61586  94% /opt

It happened after I wrote and deleted very large files (~750MB) a few times in my home dir.
Then I logged out and I relogged in as root to check what happened and "df" shown everything was right again:

/dev/sda5 2193082 320122 1761550 15% /home

...strange...

Linux Jay 2.4.2 #6 gio mar 22 00:02:30 CET 2001 ppc unknown

Bye.

P.S. Yes, I was the only one using the computer.

Was the 750M file opened by a program when it was deleted? When a file is deleted, if it is opened, it will still be there and taking up file space (as shown in df) until it is completely closed. However, even if the file is opened by a process and not really deleted, the file's space will no longer show up in du because the file can no longer be accessed through the filesystem.

It sounds like this is what happened, and whatever program had the file open was closed when you logged out.

Jag

No, I ripped two times the image from a few audio CDs with cdparanoia -Z to see if my new 2nd-hand cdrom worked fine. I just did grab, cmp, rm.

Yes, I know posix, but I don't think this is the case. I'll try reproduce it...

Bye.

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