Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.

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From: Robert Rothenberg
Subject: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.
Date: 17:21 on 18 Dec 2006
On 18/12/06 16:01 Yossi Kreinin wrote:

> ... After some time it turned out that some log files exceeded 2G. When you
> remove a file *that* big on this filesystem (or this kernel, or
> something), the disk space is not reclaimed to an extent which would
> allow you to actually create new files using that space....

Did you sync after running the rm command?

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