Ext4 effectively does a block-level wipe when you do a delete. (Makes forensics difficult.) Odds are that your "rm" command has removed the file pointers, but the kernel has not yet completed scrubbing the disk. I would expect the space to become free once that process is done. -Josh More On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Mr. B-o-B <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a WTF in progress, and I can't figure out why. I have a CentOS box > that I use to store various backups on at work. All the backups are stored > on a separate RAID 6 setup (11TB - LVM using ext4). The backups area is > shared via Samba. > > So I just rm a directory that was close to 6TB is size. However when I do a > df -h to disk usage remains unchanged. > > I thought Samba might have something to do with this, so I restarted the > service. No Change. I rebooted the box and no change. > > Has anyone experienced this before, and if so how did you reclaim the space? > > Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Bob > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list