Normally when a partition fills up, you remove some files, freeing up some space and watch your disk usage drop in

df -h

The first time recently I ran into a situation where that wasn’t the case. I had filled up my root partition and after removing some files and moving some others to another partition I noticed no change in my output of

df -h

Applications were crashing since they couldn’t write to the partition but I knew I had removed at least a few GB’s worth of data. What gives?

The past couple of weeks I’ve begun looking into an online backup solution as I start to realize I’d be really really really pissed if something happened to my data.  Currently I’m running my desktop in a RAID 1 configuration using dmraid aka fakeraid, under Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04.  The reason I ended up having to use fakeraid was because I still dualboot Windows XP 64bit for doing photoshop work and the occasional game play.  I could do my photoshop work in a VM, but then I lose the advantage of a dual screen workflow when going through my photos.

Don’t run Windows 2003 on Xen (open source version). That is all. Thank you