[LUGSB] Ghost files: incomplete deletion (or some such)

[Christopher Brandon Wright]

And if that file is still open, I won't be able to unmount the partition
that it's on while the file is in use. So remounting the drive should
ensure that all deleted files are actually removed. But that didn't
work. (At least, I think it didn't. "umount -l" causes ambiguities; you
know you can't access the partition further, but you can't tell when the
partition is fully unmounted.)

Now, since I tried fsck --rebuild-trees with insufficient space on the
partition, I broke the partition. And fsck --fix-fixable doesn't work.
Am I down to reformatting the partition?

Ta muchly,
Christopher Wright

On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 09:02 -0400, Charles P. Wright wrote:
> If the file is still open, then it won't be deleted until the program
> that has a reference to it closes.  For example, if you delete log
> files, then you need to restart syslog to reclaim the space.
> 
> Charles (a.k.a. Chip) Wright :)
> 
> On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 01:59 +0000, cbwright wrote:
> > Hello--
> > 
> > I'm using Gentoo and Gnome; they reside on a pair of ReiserFS partitions
> > on a smallish legacy hard drive. Since the drive is small, I have to
> > manage space allocation rather tightly, deleting large files when
> > they're no longer in use.
> > 
> > However, when I delete files, they aren't deleted. The amount of hard
> > disk space used doesn't change, though I can no longer access the file.
> > The only way I can recover that space is by rebooting--remounting isn't
> > sufficient, nor is it a solution when dealing with the root directory.
> > 
> > Does anyone know what's going on?
> > 
> > Ta muchly,
> > Christopher (not Chip) Wright
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