Received: from danausrh01.dana.com ([162.74.99.21]) by disenio.conatel.com.uy with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id R9HPZMV3; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:53:40 -0300 Message-ID: From: Allan.Marillier@dana.com To: jgonzalez@conatel.com.uy Subject: Re: [HPADM] free disk space not released after a file remove Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:52:30 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" The file was probable in use by some process when you deleted it. All you did was to remove the name. Until the last process accessing that file termintaes the space will not be recovered. Use fuser (standard) or lsof (freeware - often better than lsof) to check a file / file system before deleting a file, then kill the process. You may still be able to locate the processes accessing a deleted file, but it is not as easy as doing it before the deletion. "Javier Gonzalez Arenas" Sent by: hpux-admin-owner@DutchWorks.nl 09/15/2003 04:38 PM To: "hpadm" cc: Subject: [HPADM] free disk space not released after a file remove Hello admins, At HP-UX 11.00 I have removed a 2 GB file without seen that space increasing the available free space in the filesystem. The filesystem type is hfs and I have used bdf to check their size and space availability. The same thing has happened in another filesystem. I've done a successful umount and fsck just to see that nothing has changed. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, javier