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From: Pol <xtekhne@gmail.com>
Subject: updating informations of file systems
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:55:00 +0100
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Sometimes i happened to notice that the result of the 'du -s' command on a
ext3 partition  of my local disc does not yield the real value. 
My impression is that, some times, it may take hours, before the real space 
used by the partition being updated.
Is that possible?

Thank you

--Pol