Re: Phantom disk space

Greg Tupper wrote:
>
> I have had a problem much like this on an HPUX 9.01 box. I deleted all
> the oracle datafiles, but the system still reported my disk as 85% filled.
>
> I thought it a bug in the HpUX 9.01 kernel.
>
> Rebooting the system restored the space....
>
> Greg Tupper
> gtupper_at_nosc.mil
>
>

We encountered exactly the same problem on a Sun box with Solaris 2.4 while doing a test restore of a database from backup tape. When we aborted the tape download and removed the files, the space did not get returned. Rebooting the system restored the space.

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