Still at 100% disk usage after deleting files? Deleting file won’t free the space until you delete the processes that have open handles against that file. Nevertheless, you can reclaim the space. All you need to do is to remove the file descriptors. First execute lsof | grep deleted to identify the process holding the file.
LVM Management
http://serverfault.com/questions/28989/fdisk-l-like-list-of-partitions-and-their-types-for-lvm-logical-volumes http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/40702/how-to-manage-and-use-lvm-logical-volume-management-in-ubuntu/ The fdisk shows a 256GB Drive. 50GB on root and the question is how to resize up to the 256GB drive for more space. You can learn information about the volume group itself with ‘lvdisplay’, ‘vgscan’, ‘lvs’ and ‘vgdisplay’. LVS Both drives are in an LVM configuration. This allows you to create logical … Read more