thanks for the tip! On Jan 1, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Yan Yu wrote: > >> Hello, there, Happy new year everyone! >> I am puzzled here. Could some expert help me shed some light on >> this? >> this may not be a centos specific Q.. >> i have a linux machine. and the root partition (/) is full.. >> so I moved a dir from /data to /var (/var is on a different >> partition), and created a link from /data/fa to /var/xyz, the files >> under /var/xyz is about 8G, >> du /var/fa >> 8701248 /var/fa >> >> so I thought this should free some space for me, but when I used df, >> it gave me similar results before and after the move.. and my rpm >> installation would fail due to the lack of space.. >> >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 15235040 15232452 0 100% / >> /dev/cciss/c0d0p8 other partitions have free space.... >> >> I was confused on why moving a 8G file to another partition did not >> free some space for me? >> and I did see that the disk usage for the destination partition/disk >> increases after the move.. >> >> any pointer is appreciated! > > If you do an "lsof" and look for anything that says "deleted" that is > something that has been deleted from disk but is still open > somewhere and > the disk space can not be reclaimed until the process that has the > file > open lets go of the file. You also may have hard links to files in > other > directories that will not allow the disk space to be freed as well. > > Barry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos