df -k shows no space left, even after i delete things. Always 100% use Disappearing hard drive space! :(

Hi,

I recently was doing some cp -R and some deletions of files when installing XFree 4.4, so that now I have a strange error - even when I delete files, my hard drive shows that 100% of disk space is used. I can delete more and more files, but it still always shows 100% usage.


[root@icecream root]# df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              8127808   7911328         0 100% /
/dev/sda1               101089     15059     80811  16% /boot
none                    256672         0    256672   0% /dev/shm
[root@icecream root]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             7.8G  7.6G     0 100% /
/dev/sda1              99M   15M   79M  16% /boot
none                  251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
[root@icecream root]#

Are some examples.  I can still write stuff / copy stuff using root until the sda2 used is the actual number of 1k-blocks. However, when another user (regular user) tries to write to the disk, it says the disk is full.

What might be the problem?

Thanks.!

-Edward