Re: weird disk space report

[Artur Grabowski <art@blahonga.org>]

"Franco Galian" <fg@nps.com.ar> writes:

> 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??

Something still keeps that file open. Kill the process that does it (fstat
is your friend) and the file should go away.

//art