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From: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sparse files and df
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 13:06:59 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090524130659.5bb77e59@coercion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090524124207.2bc0bf86@coercion>

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On Sun, 24 May 2009 12:42:07 +0600
Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I know that df can actually show weird results sometimes but I
> wonder why (re)moving files from a file system doesn't affect it's
> output at all.
> Do I really have 5G there which will be depleted soon and there's
> nothing I can do to help it?
> If not, how come anyone trusts df output at all when it can report
> almost-empty fs to be almost-full?

The idea that rtorrent should re-open all the files hit me a bit too
late - just restarting it fixed df output.
Now I wonder how can a file descriptor remain valid even after file was
moved to another fs, but I guess it might be some os feature.
Sorry for the noise.

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-24  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-24  6:42 [gentoo-user] Sparse files and df Mike Kazantsev
2009-05-24  7:06 ` Mike Kazantsev [this message]
2009-05-24  7:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-05-24  8:13   ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-05-24  8:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon

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