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bug#18178: help
From: |
Bernhard Voelker |
Subject: |
bug#18178: help |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Aug 2014 08:14:36 +0200 |
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On 08/03/2014 06:35 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 08/03/2014 04:31 AM, Jermaine Golding wrote:
>> Good Day;
>>
>> I just deleted over 100gigs of logs and my var partition is still at 100%.
>>
>> Please advise I am using checkpoint gaia.
>>
>> address@hidden:0]# df --h
>> df: option `--h' is ambiguous
>> Try `df --help' for more information.
>> address@hidden:0]# df -h
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_current
>> 40G 8.5G 29G 23% /
>> /dev/sda1 145M 31M 107M 23% /boot
>> /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log
>> 768G 743G 0 100% /var/log
>> address@hidden:0]#
>
> If you delete a file which a process still has open
> the blocks are not freed until the process closes the file.
> This is what allows one to update a file which is already open.
> I'll leave it to you to identify which services to restart etc.
Additionally to what Padraig said, if the files had 2 or more
hardlinks, then it's possible that you only deleted one hardlink
reference to the file.
Have a nice day,
Berny