And if there is a rubbish file somewhere, I *think* you should be able 
to cat /dev/null > thatfile

Which would free up it's blocks.

Assuming you don't have snapshots... ;)

Nathan.

Anton B. Rang wrote:
> At least three alternatives --
> 
> 1. If you don't have the latest patches installed, apply them.  There have 
> been bugs in this area which have been fixed.
> 
> 2. If you still can't remove files with the latest patches, and you have a 
> service contract with Sun, open a service request to get help.
> 
> 3. Add a new device (or RAID group) to the pool, which will give you free 
> space again.  You can then delete files, at the cost of having your pool 
> larger, since you can't remove it again.
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