[KLUG Members] Re: SLES 9 not showing free disk space

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>> The file has not been deleted, only dereferenced.  On UNIX you can
>> dereference a file with "rm" but it is not delete until (a) the
>> reference count reaches zero *AND* (b) all file handles in the kernel
>> referencing the file have been released.
> I suspected something like this but didn't know what to do about it
> short of rebooting.

There is a utility called "closefd" that can close a file;  but you of course
deal with any attendant consequences.  It is always a good idea to fuser temp
files before deleting them.