Re: [Xen-users] problem with deleting the loopback files

To:	Jia Rao <rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] problem with deleting the loopback files
From:	Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:01:48 +0000
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Jia Rao wrote:

Hi all,
I created the disk spaces for VMs using loopback files. However I gota strange problem. When I deleted the loopback file for the virtualmachine to free some disk space for the physical machine, it turnedout that after deletion, the free disk space is not increased.
How can I delete the loopback files? removing them as the regular file?
Right now, I already deleted the loopback file, how can I get the freedisk space back?
Thanks a lot,
Jia.

Run lsof: look for "discarded" files.

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