Josh More cried from the depths of the abyss... > Ext4 effectively does a block-level wipe when you do a delete. (Makes > forensics difficult.) Odds are that your "rm" command has removed the > file pointers, but the kernel has not yet completed scrubbing the > disk. I would expect the space to become free once that process is > done. > Understood. Would the kernel scrubbing cause disk activity? I do not see any disk activity at the moment. Thanks! Mr. B-o-B