On 3/14/21 8:33 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote:
> Run fsck to make sure your disk isn't corrupted or damaged. Afterward,
> your lost+found might get populated with the stuff that occupies the
> space, done so in order for you to review.

Already looked in lost+found.  Nothing there.

Tried fsck.  It says the partition is clean.


Marc

>
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:10:03 -0700
> Marc Shapiro via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
>> I had some large files (over 200GB in total size) that I no longer
>> needed.  So I removed them.  They no longer show up in the
>> directory. However, df, still shows the space as being used.  I
>> understand that if processes are still using the files they will not
>> be removed until the processes either release them, or are shut down
>> (or killed).  I have tried using 'lsof -a -L1 MOUNTPOINT' to list the
>> open, but deleted files.  It returns no files at all.
>>
>> These files are on a removable drive.  I can unmount the partition
>> and disconnect the drive, then reconnect the drive and remount the
>> partition, but the space still shows as being used. If the files are
>> still open, shouldn't 'umount' give an error?
>>
>> I would rather not have to shut down the system.  Is there some other
>> way to determine what is keeping these files open, or otherwise
>> preventing the space from being reclaimed?
>>
>> Marc
>>
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