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It is possible that some process was attached to those files and until
that process released those files it wouldn't release the space, Also Unix
will take its own time to actually clean up a delete. It will delete the
inode reference from the directory listing but can take some time to
actually release the space depending on how busy the system, or that
filesystem, is.
I have seen some programs that make hidden files to carry out tasks. The
software actually created a file then attached a process to it and then
deleted the file whilst the process was attached. The file was accessible
to the process but was hidden from everything else. You can find them with
an inode listing.
Cheers
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hi gurus,
This is unix question but hope someone got the answer.... I ran df -k yesterday on my oracle directories.
/oradata4 81% /oradata3 77% /oradata6 72%
today agian I ran df -k which showed. /oradata4 as at 76% capacity.
my question why df -k command took some time to give exact figures on disk
usage ?
Is there any why to refresh this command or are there any alternatives ?
naren
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