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Message #21 received at 18178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jermaine Golding <Jermaine.Golding <at> caribbean.fujitsu.com>
To: Jermaine Golding <Jermaine.Golding <at> caribbean.fujitsu.com>, "Bernhard
 Voelker" <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>, Pádraig Brady
 <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: "18178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <18178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#18178: help
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 23:52:53 -0700

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That still did not resolve the issue

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From: Jermaine Golding<mailto:Jermaine.Golding <at> caribbean.fujitsu.com>
Sent: ‎8/‎3/‎2014 1:49 AM
To: Bernhard Voelker<mailto:mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>; Pádraig Brady<mailto:P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 18178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org<mailto:18178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#18178: help

I also rebooted a few times

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From: Bernhard Voelker<mailto:mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Sent: ‎8/‎3/‎2014 1:14 AM
To: Pádraig Brady<mailto:P <at> draigBrady.com>; Jermaine Golding<mailto:Jermaine.Golding <at> caribbean.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 18178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org<mailto:18178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#18178: help

On 08/03/2014 06:35 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.

Additionally to what Padraig said, if the files had 2 or more
hardlinks, then it's possible that you only deleted one hardlink
reference to the file.

Have a nice day,
Berny

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