[CS-FSLUG] Windows 7 conectability issues.

[Fred A. Miller]

On 02/05/2013 09:21 AM, Tim Young wrote:
> Heh heh.  I wish that were the case.  But since I had 1.2TB of free 
> space after my reboot (Yes, I ended up rebooting my server to fix the 
> problem), it was a software issue.  Some package was eating up the 
> space.  Linux has an odd quirk that, if you have a file open, but 
> delete the file anyway, that the file no-longer shows up in programs 
> like du, ls, etc.  But the space is still used up until the 
> file-handle is closed.  Some software was making a ton of temp-files, 
> or one huge temp-file, and did not close the file-handle until I 
> rebooted.
>
> But, instead of blaming it on Linux in general, we can blame it on 
> some unknown Linux package... 

Well, most often that is what is the cause. 'Looks like something that 
needs to be fixed "at the root," eh?  ;)

Fred

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