[KLUG Members] SLES 9 not showing free disk space

[Stuart Gillis]

I have a server running SLES 9, apache and oracle 10g.

Oracle is installed in /opt which is part of the same partition as
root. Data files are in a separate partion. Oracle created a 6.7GB
temp01.dbf file in /opt which filled the partition which is causing
havoc. I copied the temp01.dbf file to the /data partition and oracle
was reconfigured to look for it there. I then deleted the temp01.dbf
file from /opt.

The problem is after deleting this 6.7GB file, df -h still shows that
partition as full.

dev/cciss/c0d0p2      16G   15G   28M 100% /
tmpfs                 1.5G   12K  1.5G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1      63M   39M   25M  62% /boot
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7     648G  326G  323G  51% /data
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3     5.1G  1.1G  4.0G  21% /tmp
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5      11G  141M  9.9G   2% /var

Is there a way to force the system to rescan the partitions?
 
Thanks
Stu