Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-14 Thread Ludovic Bellière
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:28:32 -0700 Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > > It may also be possible that the files you removed have other > > references on your file system, aka. hard links. To find them, you > > would need to know the inode number, either by using `stat` or `ls > > -i`. You can then

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-14 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 3/14/21 10:09 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote: I assume you read the man page of fsck, as it's return code is what you want to pay attention to. As for lsof, the correct parameters would be `lsof +aL1 /dev/sdx. It should have thrown an error were you to use `lsof -L1`. If lsof returns nothing,

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-14 Thread Ludovic Bellière
I assume you read the man page of fsck, as it's return code is what you want to pay attention to. As for lsof, the correct parameters would be `lsof +aL1 /dev/sdx. It should have thrown an error were you to use `lsof -L1`. If lsof returns nothing, your drive is most likely corrupted. It may also

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-14 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 3/14/21 8:33 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote: Run fsck to make sure your disk isn't corrupted or damaged. Afterward, your lost+found might get populated with the stuff that occupies the space, done so in order for you to review. Already looked in lost+found.  Nothing there. Tried fsck.  It

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-14 Thread Ludovic Bellière
Run fsck to make sure your disk isn't corrupted or damaged. Afterward, your lost+found might get populated with the stuff that occupies the space, done so in order for you to review. On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:10:03 -0700 Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > I had some large files (over 200GB in total

[DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-14 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
I had some large files (over 200GB in total size) that I no longer needed.  So I removed them.  They no longer show up in the directory.  However, df, still shows the space as being used.  I understand that if processes are still using the files they will not be removed until the processes