I removed it using rm. I don't know what you mean.
Most likely the files were still open anyway. Did you make sure that
the processes had closed them? (using lsof and/or fuser).
I've had plenty of big files on ext2/3 and it does delete them.
I think I eliminated all traces of semi-intelligent life on that machine,
killing all processes I could. Maybe it's not ext* but some other filesystem. Or
maybe you are right and the files were still open. That's hateful on much more
levels than a mere filesystem bug:
* Why didn't rm say they were open?
* And by which process, so I'd know if it's OK to kill it?
* Why did unmounting the filesystem succeed, instead of saying the processes
still need it?
How am I supposed to clean up a RHEL box - reboot it like a good old Windows
3.11 (or kill all useful processes, which is the same), or should I guess which
resource is used by which process? Who's the operating system here?
