08-25-2005
If you delete any file for which the system still has an open file handle then the space taken up by that file is not recovered untill the file handle(s) are closed.
The file you deleted was probably open by a process that is still running. Rebooting is an extreme (if guarneteed) method of fixing. You should be able to us lsof (if installed) to find the process.
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recover
RECOVER(1) General Commands Manual RECOVER(1)
NAME
recover - recover a deleted file
SYNOPSIS
recover [device] [options]
OPTIONS
-h, --help prints help
-a, --all no filtering; dump all deleted inodes
DESCRIPTION
recover recovers a file which matches some ext2 - info about the deleted inode by getting all the deleted inodes and filtering them. It's
based upon the Ext2Undeletion-howto by Aaron Crane. Using this utility, your chances to recover a lost file should increase a lot.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DELETED FILE
o Hard disk device name
o Year of deletion
o Month of deletion
o Weekday of deletion
o First/Last possible day of month
o Min/Max possible file size
o Min/Max possible deletion hour
o Min/Max possible deletion minute
o User ID of the deleted file
o A text string the file included (can be ignored)
BUGS
Please note that recover does not work with ext3 filesystems, it is strictly ext2-only. For further information on this, please read
/usr/share/doc/recover/README.ext2only
WARRANTY
There is no warranty.
SEE ALSO
debugfs (8)
AUTHOR
Tom Pycke (Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be)
WEBSITE
http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover
November 4 1999 RECOVER(1)