Re: Disk space - help!
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 21:56 +0000, eeijlar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Something is eating up my disk space at a rate of knots.. I have
> deleted tons of stuff including an enormous file, but df -a is still
> reporting no space:
If the file/files being written to are still open, deleting them does
NOT result in free space. Not until the files are closed.
Just fyi.
You can use tools like lsof to check to see if the file(s) you removed
are in fact still open and you can use that tool to track down the pid
and perhaps kill it.
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