tag 18178 notabug close 18178 stop 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. > > [Expert@Fwall:0]# df --h > df: option `--h' is ambiguous > Try `df --help' for more information. > [Expert@Fwall: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 > [Expert@Fwall: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. Pádraig.
