I've occasionally seen some disk/file operations under some
circumstances not fully complete due to buffering.
You can try the "sync" command for these cases.



On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 15:38 -0500, Mr. B-o-B 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
> 
> 
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