Re: Questions: bforget & forgotten pages

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:06:21 +0100


Hi,

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:39:43 -0400 (EDT), Kenneth Albanowski
<kjahds@kjahds.com> said:

> However, this reclamation is only used by ext2fs, and only by the truncate
> call. I'm not positive whether files are "truncated" before being deleted.
> (If so, deleted files will be reclaimed, but still only in the ext2 fs.)

They are. That's the way we reclaim space on-disk from deleted files.

Cheers,
Stephen

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