From: Dan Carpenter Subject: ext3: deleting files doesn't free up space Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:22:25 +0300 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: LKML , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:52109 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751193Ab1AJFW1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:22:27 -0500 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I filled up my partition last night. I deleted 5 gigs of movies. The "Used" number went down to 125G. The "Free" number stayed at 0. I rebooted the system but it's still the same. $ echo foo > foo bash: echo: write error: No space left on device $ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 136236548 130363620 0 100% /media/old_sys $ mount | grep old /dev/sda1 on /media/old_sys type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev) /media/old_sys/home on /home type none (rw,bind) This is with 2.6.37-rc5+. Is there a way to debug this? regards, dan carpenter