Hi, Thanks to all those who replied. As many suggested, the best option for me is to reboot the box and free up the disk space in use by files at the time of delete. The other situation in which this would have happened is if the directories were symbolic links, they were not. Thanks, On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ahmed, Nabeel wrote: > Hi, > > I have mutiple directories which I wanted to remove. > So I used rm -r dira dirb dirc ... > > This came back immediately, it did not delete the files acutally but just > removed the directory entries. > I see from df -k that the disk space utilized is the same. > Now I dont see the directories when I do an 'ls' > If I could see the directories again, I could use rm -r dira , then rm -r > dirb, and so on, since if I remove the directories individually, it does > free up the space. > How can I recover the disk space now? > > > Regards, > Nabeel > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers >Received on Thu Jul 19 22:00:20 2001
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