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From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
Subject: removing files leaves less free space?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 23:15:50 +0000 (UTC)
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Some time ago (for reasons I cannot remember) I decided to make a
clean reinstallation of Cygwin, so as a safety measure I renamed the
old installation to cygwin.old.  After finally deciding I didn't need
cygwin.old any more, I deleted it with:

rm -Rf cygwin.old

The command took much longer to complete than I expected, but what's
more surprising is that there is less available space (5Gb as
indicated by df) after performing the deletion than before.  Does
anyone have an idea on why?

-- 
Will


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