Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:05:37 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: <chris@calldei.com>, <Dean Lombardo <"ayk1 "@ukc.ac.uk>> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: file disappeared? Message-ID: <001301be900f$630f5150$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <19990426120756.C422@holly.dyndns.org>
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You are expecting 'rm' to do something other than it actually does. All
'rm' does is call 'unlink'. Read the man page for 'unlink' and you should
understand what is happening:
The unlink() function removes the link named by path from its directory
and decrements the link count of the file which was referenced by the
link. If that decrement reduces the link count of the file to zero,
and
no process has the file open, then all resources associated with the
file
are reclaimed. If one or more process have the file open when the last
link is removed, the link is removed, but the removal of the file is
de-
layed until all references to it have been closed. path may not be a
di-
rectory.
DS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Costello
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 10:08 AM
> To: Dean Lombardo <"ayk1 "@ukc.ac.uk>
> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: file disappeared?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 1999, Dean Lombardo wrote:
> > The subject says it all: I removed a file, but according to df, it's
> > still there!
> >
> > pcayk:~/tmp$ df -k .
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/wd0s1f 7621844 6975669 36428 99% /usr
> >
> > pcayk:~/tmp$ ls -l
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 ayk1 users 716247040 Apr 22 1999 bigcdimage.iso
> >
> > pcayk:~/tmp$ rm bigcdimage.iso
> >
> > pcayk:~/tmp$ df -k .
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/wd0s1f 7621844 6975669 36428 99% /usr
>
> Try sync(1)?
>
> --
> Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
> To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
>
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