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Updating disk free size without rebooting the host

I use RHEL4 with LVM2 on it. At times even after removing large files more that a GB the partition size is not getting updated when is see using df command. -bash-3.00$ df -h Filesystem ...
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From df device name to physical drive name (vendor / type)

Seeing the device name by df, is it somehow possible to resolve it to the physical drive name such as vendor / type. /dev/sda3 915.4G 34.9G 880.0G 4% /share/HDA_DATA /dev/sdd3 ...
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Finding files that use the most disk space

Is it possible to list the largest files on my hard drive? I frequently use df -H to display my disk usage, but this only gives the percentage full, GBs remaining, etc. I do a lot of data-intensive ...
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ext4 used space (not -m option, not deleted files)

I'm a bit puzzled about the way ext4 reports used space. On a new Debian wheezy (testing) installation, I consistently got about 1GB extra space used with a 60GB SSD, when compared to du. I then ...
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Getting info about a Virtual file system

I have created a Virtual ext3 partition on a armv7 machine with: dd if=/dev/zero of=./system.img bs=1000000 count=200 mkfs.ext2 ./system.img tune2fs -j ./system.img Now I need to get info about ...