'k, *shouldn't* require a reboot ... but, what I'd try is to do what you've thought .. disable softupdates and see if you can recreate ... if killing off the process auto-reclaims the space fast, then it sounds like a stale file being held open (log file being rotated improperly?) ...
Log file's on a different partition...
Chris
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