df -h show system full even after clearing bloated log folder

Question

I had my php_errors.log file fill up the system, I deleted the error logs, but when I type

df -h www/folder_name
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
bindfs          7.8G  7.4G  379M  96% /www/folder_name

How do I clear it up

Answer 1

Try walking the directory tree using:

du -h --max-depth=1 /www/folder_name

to figure out which directories are using the most space.

Answer 2

"df -h" only shows you the free space, which is has done. You have 379M free on that filesystem.

You may want to try something like "du -sh /www/folder_name/*" to determine what is using the space in that folder.