File system error

Richard Stevenson richard at endace.com
Wed Mar 31 16:20:24 PST 2004


On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Don wrote:

> > # df -h
> > Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/da0s1f    15G    13G   535M    96%    /usr
> > # du -h /usr
> > ...
> > 6.4G    /usr
> > I have deleted some files but it does not restore the used disk.
> > Does anybody have an idea?
> Type "sync"

And see if you can find out (lsof might help) if there were/are any
processes using the files you deleted - the file system can't release the
space until the file handles have been closed (or so I've found in the
past).

Cheers

Richard

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Richard Stevenson



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