$ ls -ls
total 5000
2500 -rwxrwx--- 1 root zip 2560000 Sep 7 09:51 bigfile1
2500 -rwxrwx--- 1 root zip 2560000 Sep 7 09:51 bigfile2
$ df .
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda4 98078 58974 39104 60% /zip
$ mv bigfile2 bigfile1
$ ls -ls
total 2500
2500 -rwxrwx--- 1 root zip 2560000 Sep 7 09:51 bigfile1
$ df .
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda4 98078 58974 39104 60% /zip
If the bigfile 1 is rm'd before the mv, everything is fine, but if
not, bigfile1 continues to take up space on the disk. Win95 scandisk
reports 2560000 bytes of lost clustors.
Erv
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