On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, George Bonser wrote:
>
> I am building a 2.2.12final3 right now and will retest with that kernel
> but I had some strange results last night with a large file.
>
> Download the 70MB StarOffice tarball into the / partition. Moved it over
> to the /var partition. Noticed that the / partition did not release the
> 70MB. So I then moved it back to the root and noticed that /var did not
> give up ITS space either and / was now showing 100% used.
>
> I COPIED the file over to var and DELETED it from / and still showing 90%
> used ... it freed up the space from the second file but still would not
> free up the space from the first one that I moved out.
>
> I am building a final3 and will reboot and retest to see if it is still
> happening.
>
>
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