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On 08/03/12 16:55, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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>>> It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports |
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>>> considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge |
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>> That's because the old files are not being deleted since they are in |
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>> use. When you logout of KDE and restart the whole stack |
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>> (/etc/init.d/xdm restart) then everything will be back to normal. |
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> By jove, that's definitely it. I knew about this fact from other use cases |
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> (like deleting a video file which I'm still watching. HA, do that, Windows!), |
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> but never thought of it regarding emerging. I always assumed for some reason |
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> that the files were kept in RAM and the physical file itself was no longer |
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> relevant. Just closing all programs before logging out gave back around 350 M. |
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I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any |
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deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes: |
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"app-admin/checkrestart". I usually run it after world updates so I can |
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tell whether I need a restart or not. |
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