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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] Missing space on my hard drive, 100% used and deleting files gives back no space.
From:       Nick LeRoy <nleroy () cs ! wisc ! edu>
Date:       2004-11-12 20:30:05
Message-ID: 200411121430.05664.nleroy () cs ! wisc ! edu
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On Fri November 12 2004 2:18 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Friday 12 November 2004 21:00, Colin Murphy wrote:
> > This is with Suse 9.1 on a Reiser filesystem.
> >
> > Unfortunately I allowed my /tmp directory to fill up and even though I am
> > deleting files I don't seem to be getting any space back.
>
> Note that files that are held open by programs won't be deleted until the
> programs end, or otherwise close the files
>
> > The partitions with this problem show up un Konqueror's 'Properties' tab
> > as being 100% used as well as showing 65.8MB free. This is with 10GB
> > partitions. It seems odd to me that they should all show 65.8MB free.
>
> What is the output of "fdisk -l" "cat /proc/mounts" and "df" ?

Note that you can also use 'lsof' to detect files that are deleted but still 
held open.  In this case, something like "lsof +D /tmp" should help.

-Nick

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