[PLUG] Out of space?

[alan]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Terry Griffin wrote:

> A file is not actually deleted until all programs that have the file open get
> around to closing it. The reboot forced the app to close the file. That
> freed up the associated disk space. Another way to do this is to kill the 
> process that is holding the file open.

That happened to be KDE.  Running initlevel 5 would have made it 
diffucult.  He would have had to log out instead of rebooting.