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

[Thomas Levine]

1. Post your fstab.
2. What command are you running to delete the files?

2005/5/21, Christopher Brandon Wright <cbwright at ic.sunysb.edu>:
> 
> 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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