From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Rohan Sheth" <rohan@rs3net.net>
Subject: File system question - free blocks
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:58:29 -0700
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Under what circumstances would I see something like this happen (ext3)?

[rohan@box1 ~]$ df

Filesystem         Total Used Free
/dev/partition     10000 9990 0

[rohan@box1 ~]$ rm <some files on that partition>

[rohan@box1 ~]$ df

Filesystem       Total Used Free
/dev/partition   10000 9700 0

So the number of blocks in use went down, but the number free did not
increase. Why?

--Rohan