Deleting Files

[Rick Stevens]

brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> I copied about 2G of files from one Windows Drive to another
> Windows drive (one machine to another) in my house to give more
> room to the first machine.  I did this from my Linux box using
> SAMBA to access the two drives.
> 
> The copy worked fine then after checking to make sure everything
> was OK I deleted the directory all of these files were under
> (again from Linux).
> 
> I did  a quick DF and there was no additional space on the
> Windows drive.  I went to the windows machine and checked the
> space.  No improvement.  So I did a defrag on the windows machine
> and no improvement in the space being reported.
> 
> HELP!  the directory is gone along with about 2G of files but I
> seem to have lost the space too.
> 
> Suggestions?

Did you unmount the source drive then remount it?  I think Samba holds
the drive/directory open.
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