Re: weird disk space report

[Eric LeBlanc <inouk@toutatis.igt.net>]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Franco Galian wrote:

> Hi, 
> I had a really big archive at /var/log which I deleted. It was more than
> 2GB. The problem is that although I see doing du only 58MB used, when I
> execute df -h I still get the report as if this archive where still there..

Try to restart syslog.

The reason is you have deleted physical files, but not file descriptors
used by some programs.

So, if a file is open, and you're deleted it, you don't see the difference
about space.

So, I think it's syslog...  Try this.

Eric