[PLUG] Out of space?

Terry Griffin griffint at pobox.com
Thu Jun 24 14:35:03 UTC 2004


A file is not actually deleted until all programs that have the file open get
around to closing it. The reboot forced the app to close the file. That
freed up the associated disk space. Another way to do this is to kill the 
process that is holding the file open.

Terry

On Thursday 24 June 2004 2:03 pm, Michael Montagne wrote:
> I deleted it already but oddly enough, lsof shows it still open it is
> .kde-errors.  I rebooted and all is well now.  Wonder what that was
> all about?  Thanks for the lsof idea.
>
> >On 06/24/04, alan busted out the keyboard and typed:
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Michael Montagne wrote:
> > > I started having some troubles with KDE and discovered that my home
> > > partition is out of disk space.  I found a file that was 2.5G and
> > > deleted figuring that was the issue.  But this morning the problem
> > > remains.  "df" tells me that I have  3045736 bytes used but "du
> > > --max-depth=1" tells me my entire home directory is only 6.0M.  A
> > > "find . -size +1000 -print" only reveals two files that are barely
> > > over 1M.  I'm using reiserfs.  Could there be another problem of some
> > > sort?
> >
> > Did you delete the file or is it sitting in trash?
> >
> > Check if you need to empty your trash.
> >
> >
> >
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