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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jermaine Golding <Jermaine.Golding <at> caribbean.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 18178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18178: help
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 05:35:20 +0100

tag 18178 notabug
close 18178
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On 08/03/2014 04:31 AM, Jermaine Golding wrote:
> Good Day;
> 
> I just deleted over 100gigs of logs and my var partition is still at 100%.
> 
> Please advise I am using checkpoint gaia.
> 
> [Expert <at> Fwall:0]# df --h
> df: option `--h' is ambiguous
> Try `df --help' for more information.
> [Expert <at> Fwall:0]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_current
>                        40G  8.5G   29G  23% /
> /dev/sda1             145M   31M  107M  23% /boot
> /dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log
>                       768G  743G     0 100% /var/log
> [Expert <at> Fwall:0]#

If you delete a file which a process still has open
the blocks are not freed until the process closes the file.
This is what allows one to update a file which is already open.
I'll leave it to you to identify which services to restart etc.

Pádraig.

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