Re: delete problem

[alan <alan clueserver org>]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Richard England wrote:

> eng.waleed wrote:
> > hi
> > I try to delete files from full space FS but the space does not be 
> > available after  delete some files , please advice
> > BR 
> How were they deleted?  If you used Nautilus, then they may still be there. 
> You needed to empty the "trash" for the disk space to be freed.

If the files are still being used by another application, they may not 
delete either.

/sbin/lsof will give you a list of open files and what has them opened.

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