Thanks Lowell. 

I did reboot the machine a few times, hoping that any process in memory that 
still claimed ownership of an open part of the disk would release it.

Didn't work. I'm going to try the other method recommended by Michael Sierchio 
-- to reboot in single user mode and try and clear out any directory structures 
that could exist that my mount labels could be hiding.  Thanks for the reply 
and helpful link.

(It was nice to not see a RTFM response, but a helpful link -- it is 
appreciated).



________________________________
From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org>
To: rtsit <rt...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: OH NO! IT says my root partition / is full but it isn't! Why is 
FreeBSD lying about space?

Try the FAQ entry titled "The du and df commands show different amounts
of disk space available. What is going on?".  You can find it at:
http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF
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