[clue-tech] ext3 missing disk space?

[Dan Harris]

On Aug 9, 2005, at 9:17 PM, David L. Anselmi wrote:

> 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!
>>
>
> The df output might be useful.  Probably something is still  
> referencing the space.  What command did you use to delete the  
> directory?  What, specifically, did the directory contain?
>

I used 'rm -fr' on the dir.  It contained the database tree for a  
rather large PostgreSQL installation.

Current output of 'df':

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c1d0p3    131510100 118487176   6342536  95% /
/dev/cciss/c1d0p1       248911     57439    178621  25% /boot
none                   6071308         0   6071308   0% /dev/shm



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