In message <36214C5E.98BAF894@mclink.it>, Dante Profeta writes:
>I noticed a strange thing with df.
>
>I deleted a very huge file which was using about 60% of a partition
>space.
>After a while I did re-run df to see how much disk space I saved, but it
>didn't show me updated informations. It still showed a 90% of partition
>usage.
>I guess this is due to the file system caching mechanism... so, is it
>normal? Is there a way to force df to flush the cache?

Most likely, a program still had the file open.  Kill that program, and
everything gets better.

-s