Re: [CentOS] space problem

On 2012-06-13, m.roth@5-cent.us m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

CentOS 6.2. I have a 2TB drive, one partition, which is used for online backups. It filled up the other day. I moved a couple of b/u directories off it, and deleted the originals, which should have given me 42G free. I also reduced the reserved blocks by 1/3rd.

How are you taking backups? If you're using something like rsnapshot, you may have only deleted one of the many hard links to your files. In doing so you may have removed the directory entries but your files are still there. (That should still have freed up some space, just not much.)

Also, perhaps check df -i?

--keith