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Subject: Re: deleting files not releasing space
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> i just deleted 100 megs of files out of my temp dir and df -h doesn't show 
> the space freed yet.  it has done this in the past and a reboot will always 
> give me my space back, but why doesn't it do it immediatly?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF