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nameless files are typically files opened by a program, and then deleted. The space is not reclaimed until the program closes the file again. This is often a problem with file systems running full because you cannot just delete the big file being written and expect the space to be available if the program is not killed or told to close the file.

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
– Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

2020-10-27 23:28:45 +00:00
Commented Oct 27, 2020 at 23:28
Note that with traditional UNIX filesystems the same file can be in the same directory more than once, with different names, too.

David Conrad
– David Conrad

2020-10-28 17:19:35 +00:00
Commented Oct 28, 2020 at 17:19

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