Re: weird disk space report

[Sam Smith <S@mSmith.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..
>
> # du -sk /var/log
> 58064   /var/log
> # df -h /var/log
> Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd0g     2.6G   2.3G   170M    93%    /var/log
>
> Any suggestions??

don't do that.

The file is still open, so the disc space is still used, although du
can't see it as the file has been deleted.

kill the process with the file open, and your space will reappear.
Rebooting will probably be safer though.




Sam


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