Chances are something had those files open when you ran your rm, use "lsof" find the offending process, killing it (or HUP sometimes works) should cause the space to come back, there's another fuser trick, but I can't remember what it is atm. Worst case, give it a therapeutic reboot. HTH. On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Mr. B-o-B <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a WTF in progress, and I can't figure out why. I have a CentOS box > that I use to store various backups on at work. All the backups are stored > on a separate RAID 6 setup (11TB - LVM using ext4). The backups area is > shared via Samba. > > So I just rm a directory that was close to 6TB is size. However when I do > a df -h to disk usage remains unchanged. > > I thought Samba might have something to do with this, so I restarted the > service. No Change. I rebooted the box and no change. > > Has anyone experienced this before, and if so how did you reclaim the > space? > > Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Bob > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -- Ben Lutgens Linux / Unix System Administrator Three of your friends throw up after eating chicken salad. Do you think: "I should find more robust friends" or "we should check that refrigerator"? -- Donald Becker, on vortex-bug, suspecting a network-wide problem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120521/293f73ba/attachment.html>