19 янв. 2024 г. · After deleting files on a veracrypt-encrypted drive with no disk space left, no disk space is freed up. I'm trying to sync a hard drive to another one as ...

27 дек. 2022 г. · Most accepted solutions involve restarting the process holding the file open or rebooting the computer. I've rebooted several times after deleting files and I ...

9 апр. 2024 г. · You need to look for large files that may have been deleted but are still in use ( lsof | grep deleted can help here) and restart the process ...

19 окт. 2020 г. · The most likely reason that the space wasn't feed up is because you have an open file handle. The space will only be freed up when nothing is holding the file ...

22 апр. 2015 г. · I recently got a "device full" warning for a 2 Tb external ext4 drive. I deleted a bunch of files, about 90-100 Gb of old system backups, and since I did not ...

13 янв. 2021 г. · 1) Execute df -h and check output. 2) Files could be removed, but inodes are opened. You can use command lsof to check whether files that were removed still ...

26 июл. 2015 г. · If you remove a file that is still in use by a running process (eg, a daemon), that disk space is only released when the process is shut down/restarted.

14 мар. 2012 г. · Check with lsof to see if there are files held open. Space will not be freed until they are closed. sudo /usr/sbin/lsof | grep deleted.

30 янв. 2015 г. · The answer is, while the processes have the files still opened, you shouldn't expect to get the space back. It's not freed, it's being actively used.

8 сент. 2017 г. · A reboot and re-mount would solve the problem I believe. Reason: The reason behind this is that df utilize statfs(2) system call to get the ...