Did you delete a lot of files, or a very few large ones? I'm wondering if your backup service is keeping a file-handle open on a backup vault. -Rob On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Mr. B-o-B <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com> wrote: > > Josh More cried from the depths of the abyss... > > > >> 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. > >> > > > > Understood. Would the kernel scrubbing cause disk activity? I do not > see > > any disk activity at the moment. > > > > I would expect that it does, but I don't know how the kernel on your > system would prioritize that activity. Personally, I'd just run > "sync" a few times and then check it in the morning. If it's not > clear, then I'm wrong. :) > > Personally, if I were writing a driver and prioritizing read times > (which is common), I would prioritize the scrubbing as low as > possible, as that would only cause a production issue if the drive was > near 100% full while a read prioritization issue would happen every > time someone deleted a file. Not sure how the driver you're using was > written though. > > -Josh > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120521/1acadb63/attachment.html>