04-07-2008
One possibility is that the directory is NFS-mounted, as era has already mentioned. Another possiblity would be a process that writes to this directory. Suppose a process that writes more or less constantly to a file, something like "vmstat 1 > /some/file" if you now remove "/some/file" ls will not show it, but it will still be there as long as the process (vmstat in this example) runs. You can see that by running "df" against the filesystem holding the file.
(btw. this is one excellent method to drive a Sysadmin crazy: Fill up the /tmp filesystem with such a mechanism and use a sufficiently innocent processname. No, do NOT try this on your colleague. ;-)) )
Use a tool like "fuser" to determine processes which still write to the filesystem/directory to remedy such a situation. Once you kill the process the filespace becomes available at once as the respective i-node is released automatically.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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fs_rmmount
FS_RMMOUNT(1) AFS Command Reference FS_RMMOUNT(1)
NAME
fs_rmmount - Removes a mount point
SYNOPSIS
fs rmmount -dir <directory>+ [-help]
fs rm -d <directory>+ [-h]
DESCRIPTION
The fs rmmount command removes the mount point named by the -dir argument from the file system. The corresponding volume remains on its
host partition or partitions, but is inaccessible if there are no other mount points for it.
OPTIONS
-dir <directory>+
Names the mount point to delete from the file system. The last element in the pathname must be an actual name, not a shorthand notation
such as "dot" (".") or "dot dot" ("..").
Specify the read/write path to the directory, to avoid the failure that results from attempting to delete a mount point from a read-
only volume. By convention, the read/write path is indicated by placing a period before the cell name at the pathname's second level
(for example, /afs/.abc.com). For further discussion of the concept of read/write and read-only paths through the filespace, see the fs
mkmount reference page.
-help
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.
EXAMPLES
The following command removes the mount points jones and terry from the current working directory (the /afs/abc.com/usr directory).
% fs rmmount jones terry
PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must have the "d" (delete) permission on the ACL of the directory that houses each mount point.
SEE ALSO
fs_lsmount(1), fs_mkmount(1)
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