Re: deleting a file I can't see

[Ez-Aton]

While the files are still being used, the space will not be available. If you restart your syslogd service, you will reclaim the missing space. Ez. Shlomo Solomon wrote: I had what I think was a hardare problem with my TV card and ended up with huge log files that completely filled up my / partition. My only way out was to delete a 6 Gb /var/log/syslog and a 3 Gb /var/log/kernel/info from the command line. After deleting both files, df still reports that I'm using about 3 Gb more than I believe I am. Here's the output from df and du: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 12G 5.1G 6.7G 43% / [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# du / -x 0 /.qt 7.9M /bin 0 /dev 28K /etc/ft/cfg << snip snip snip >> 4.0K /ggg-hda 0 /logwatch.WV9ApJ34 4.0K /initrd 0 /logwatch.PJLkZHDq 1.8G / [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# I suspect that for some reason the 3 Gb file is still taking up space, even though I can't see it. Is it possible the inodes are still in use, and if so, how do I clean this up? Is there an easier way than booting with a rescue CD? TIA