Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

From: garaged (garaged_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/13/05

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    To: Juha <juhis@trinity.is-a-geek.com>
    
    

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    > Can anybody help me here, to free up some disk space, to help me
    > understand what's going on?

    Have you moved big directories from here to there ?? and not rebooted since
    that ?

    Try rebooting, if a file is moved or deleted while in use, it will be
    actually deleted only when the process using it dies, so it takes twice as
    much space as it should.

    Max

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