[clue-tech] ext3 missing disk space?

[Dan Harris]

On Aug 9, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:25:14PM -0600, Dan Harris wrote:
>
>> Something strange happened today.  I have an ext3 filesystem and I
>> deleted a directory that was about 118 gigs in size ( database
>> stuff ).  And the command finished instantly.  Sure enough the
>> directory is now gone, however 'df' still reports all that disk space
>> being used!
>>
>> Any ideas how to get this free space back?
>>
>
> That usually means that something still has the file open.
>
> fuser might help you find the culprit.
>
>

I've rebooted the box, that should have released it, no?

-Dan

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