On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Adam Hardy <adam....@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote: > Hi, > > it looks like I've messed up one of my hard drives after filling the drive > up to full - deleting files is not freeing up space, at least not according > to 'df'. > > I get this output: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 9.2G 2.8G 6.0G 33% / > tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 10M 64K 10M 1% /dev > tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda6 26G 173M 25G 1% /data1 > /dev/hdb1 688G 663G 0 100% /data2 > > hdb1 is causing concern. I unmounted and remounted it without noticeable > effect - anyone know what I've done wrong and how I can sort it out? Don't sure, because if you umount it , then my tip won't work, but you could grepping lsof output.
If you deleted /data2/data lsof | grep "/data2/data" And kill the proccess who is "blocking" your space from being free. Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
