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Yossi Kreinin <yossi.kreinin@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > * Why didn't rm say they were open? rm doesn't know if the files are open, so it can't tell you. > * And by which process, so I'd know if it's OK to kill it? lsof is your friend. May need to be run as root depending on what you ask of it. > * Why did unmounting the filesystem succeed, instead of saying the > processes still need it? That is an indication there were no open files (unless you used the force option). Maybe you did kill the processes off. ext3 can be slow to delete large files, but seconds not minutes. If the files really are not open, and a short while has passed, the space should be available again. If you've managed to unmount and remount the filesystem and the space is still missing according to df then that's a bug. Cheers, Martin. PS. Beware of nfs keeping files open on behalf of a client machine.There's stuff above here
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