Re: df output

[Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Adam Hardy <adam.ant@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,