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"df -h" report incorrect free space

OS: Debian 6.0.3
kernel: 2.6.32-5-486
/dev/sda3 filesystem is ext3

server:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5              74G  2.2G   68G   4% /
...............
/dev/sda3             266G  266G     0 100% /sda3

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After deleting ~100Gb of data using "rm -Rf", /dev/sda3 is still full!!
"e2fsck -f /dev/sda3 " reports everything ok
I reboot twice (to remount the partition, but no sucess)

Any idea how can I fix thhe problem?
Thank you

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Gerwin Jansen

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bz43

run the following command as a regular user.
modify size +20000 as you see fit.

find . -size +20000k -exec du -h {} \;

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also, curious if you do a search for the file named, "xsession-errors" like

find . -iname ".xsession-errors*"

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how big is the file?

Tintin

Are you 100% sure you deleted the data from /sda3?

What is the output of

du -h /sd3/*

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omarfarid

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ampranti

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After deleting a few more files, and doing a mount / umount I got the correct empty space

# df -h /dev/sda3
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 266G 107G 146G 43% /sda3

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Keith Brown

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&quot;df -h&quot; report incorrect free space

"df -h" report incorrect free space