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I'm running FC3 and ran out of disk space on my /hda2 partition
After deleting a huge - and I mean approx 5Gb - worth of files, the df output still shows 0% free. None of these files were linked to other files. They should be well truly gone.
Rebooting and forcing a fsck doesn't seem to have solved the problem.
What files did you delete? Were they files in /var ? If you delete a file that is currently being written to, it won't free up the space til you restart the process that was writing to the file.
And you should really think about having the psuedo type filesystems on their own partitions as well.. like /var and /tmp
I've ran into the same situation with the 2.6.5-7.145-smp kernel, ended up with 0% space left on my / partition so I deleted ~14GB worth of files - waited a bit, 0% free was still reported. I switched runlevels and 0% free was still reported, and I could not create any files. Only a reboot corrected the situation. It appears there is a bug in the Linux kernel where when it runs totally out of space, it won't recognize freed space until a reboot. I'm sure that if it were to occur on another partition that an umount followed by a mount would correct it. I haven't tried "sync" because sync can be dangerous on mounted partitions at times.
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