On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 12:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the logs came from /raid/ssl/.....  so it's definitely on 'sda1' right?  
> 4.1G still taken up!  weird...
> does 'rm' completely remove it? I should think so... it just makes the
> i-node free so it's as good as gone right?  :(

Could be one of two things I can think of.
- The file system usually reserves space for the root user, that's
unavailable to regular users.  You can check the reserved block count
using dumpe2fs, and change it with tune2fs.  If root is writing those
files, then it will continue to write to them after df is reporting 100%
usage, and removing them may not get you back below 100%.  I think
you'll find, if you run df without the -h option, different figures for
the total size and used space on the full partition, indicating this is
the cause.

- Some process or other may be holding the deleted files open still.  If
a file is open when it is deleted, then its directory entries are
deleted, but the file is still hanging around, and the space won't be
freed until the program using that file closes it.  access_log is an
apache log file, right?  If so, try stopping and starting apache and
seeing if that clears it up.

-- 
Pete

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