After deleting lots of large files, free space increases with a large delay
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00:00 After Deleting Lots Of Large Files, Free Space Increases With A Large Delay
02:59 Accepted Answer Score 10
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There are two factors that may be interacting.
Unlike Windows you can delete files that are open. If you delete a movie that is being streamed, it will be removed from the directory, but will still exist as a file until the streaming program closes it. Once the streaming software closes it, the space will be released. The
fuser -mcommand can be used to find the process id of any processes with open files. Some programs may not immmediately close files when they are done with them.These are both journaled file systems. Changes are written to a journal and then committed. It can take a while for the changes to commit. The operating system will often cache disk changes and only commit changes to disk periodically. Running the
synccommand should flush any pending changes to disk. Mounting the disk with thesyncoption will improve the speed to disk, but works the disk harder.