I also rebooted a few times Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Bernhard Voelker<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 8/3/2014 1:14 AM To: Pádraig Brady<mailto:[email protected]>; Jermaine Golding<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: bug#18178: help
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. >> >> [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. 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
