[SOLVED] Directory free space wrongly reported

iMagic

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Gents,
Here I have a strange problem. There is a storage defined in my environment for images - Directory. I use it to upload ISO images into it. It's not that big storage and finally it hit the top limit. But the surprise is that although deleted a couple of ISOs I can't get all the space back. I mean that the file sizes in sum is considerably less than the occupied size of the storage. In turn I can't upload a new ISO.
I guess this could be repaired by running of a disk check utility, but this is definitely out of my competence! :D
Can somebody help me to recover the space?

Update: To be more explicit, uploading a CentOS iso of a size of 9GB would restart over and over. So I deleted a large amount of files, and the iso is uploading completely, the dashboard shows me the file uploaded, but it's size is about 700MB and after a refresh it is definitely gone. So I assume that the filesystem is corrupted, reporting to the Proxmox a wrong free space size.
 
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Update.
I restarted Proxmox and it finally shown the real storage size. I'm wondering, is this because that deleted images were actually still bound to some VMs?
If this is the case, than the thread can be closed.
 
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