[lug] df -h question

[Hugh Brown]

Something I have had happen to me in a similar situation was that the
partition was overfull (linux reserves 5% to allow you to move around
and do stuff in situations like this).  So, part of the 5% had been
eaten away, so I had to keep removing things before I saw things clear
up.  

There may also be an open file that got deleted, but is still open.  Can
you umount the partition?  If you can't you probably have some open
files, use lsof or fuser to give you more info.

Hugh

Glenn Ashton wrote:
> 
> I have a SuSe 6.4 box that has a full hard drive.
> 
> A df -h shows that there is no space on a particular partition.
> 
> I rm files from the afforementioned partition, and they go away, but when
> I run df -h again, there is no evident change.
> 
> Why is this?
> 
> How do I get the box to understand I have just given it back a bunch of
> space?
> 
> -Glenn Ashton
> 
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