rm doesn't free up space

[Greg Trounson]

Earl wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm running FC3 and ran out of disk space.
> 
> After deleting a huge - and I mean approx 5Gb - worth of files, the df output still shows 0% free. None of these files were linked to other files. They should be well truly gone.
> 
> Rebooting and forcing a fsck doesn't seem to have solved the problem.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Earl
> 

A long shot, but what is your inode count?

df -i will tell you.

It is possible to run out of available inodes on an ext2/3 filesystem, 
even if there is still plenty of free disk space available.

Another possibility is that the files you deleted were situated on a 
mountpoint pointing to another volume.

Greg