[PLUG] How do we know who to trust?
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louisk at cryptomonkeys.org
Mon Oct 8 02:49:17 UTC 2018
files can be “deleted” with out actually removing them from the disk, this frequently happens when a file is open. once the open file has been closed, the space will be reclaimed.
> On Oct 7, 2018, at 9:43 PM, logical american <website.reader3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In regard to trusting computers, 2 days ago I noticed that my /tmp folder seems empty, but it is not according to df command.
>
> %df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb4 60220292 53920 57077632 1% /tmp
>
> The problem is that when you go to /tmp folder under superuser mode and do the %ls command, nothing shows up.
>
> So what is taking up 53.9 megs of data and why isn't this visible to the super user?
>
> Am I too trusting?
>
> - Randall
>
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