Deleting Files

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:

> 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.

I get a device is busy doing an unmount but I've rebooted with
the same results (i.e. no change).  Very misterious.

Thanks,

Brad