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Old 02-02-2010
Reclaim deleted disk space
I have a disk space issue on one of my unix servers.

it is showing 98% full.. i found the offending folder and removed it. but i have not reclaimed the disk space.

is there another command that i need ?

thank you in advance for any assistance.
# 2  
Old 02-02-2010
Does it mean something was filling this directory with data?
Can it be that process responsible for this task is still running?

Regards,
-Artur.
# 3  
Old 02-02-2010
What is the O/S?
Which filesystem is nearly full?
What did you delete?
# 4  
Old 02-02-2010
SunOS 5.9

Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0 55G 53G 1.6G 98% /
/proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mntta
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
/dev/md/dsk/d3 7.9G 382M 7.4G 5% /var
swap 6.8G 40K 6.8G 1% /var/run
swap 6.8G 24K 6.8G 1% /tmp

i had found a folder that was called test under /var/adm

Supervisor said that it was old (over a year) contained copies of the message files
# 5  
Old 02-02-2010
/var is a separate mountpoint according to your post. Deleting files in /var/adm will not affect free space in the root filesystem.
Try looking under the root filesystem bearing in mind that yours is 50 Gb larger than a normal system and no doubt contains something more than just unix ! Be careful and take local advice before deleting anything.
 
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