Look up files that are deleted but not reclaimed

sudo /usr/sbin/lsof | grep deleted
  • Space will not be freed for the files there.
  • Restart those offending daemons to actually free the space up.

If you don’t have lsof, just use this:

find /proc/*/fd -ls | grep  '(deleted)'

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