Hello, there, Happy new year everyone! I am puzzled here. Could some expert help me shed some light on this? this may not be a centos specific Q.. i have a linux machine. and the root partition (/) is full.. so I moved a dir from /data to /var (/var is on a different partition), and created a link from /data/fa to /var/xyz, the files under /var/xyz is about 8G, du /var/fa 8701248 /var/fa
so I thought this should free some space for me, but when I used df, it gave me similar results before and after the move.. and my rpm installation would fail due to the lack of space..
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 15235040 15232452 0 100% / /dev/cciss/c0d0p8 other partitions have free space....
I was confused on why moving a 8G file to another partition did not free some space for me? and I did see that the disk usage for the destination partition/disk increases after the move..
any pointer is appreciated! yan