Disk space not reclaimed after deleting log files

Hello World,

if you get out of disk space and delete log files, and you don’t see your disk space reclaimed, you may have found an issue that I faced with rsyslog not releasing rotatable files.

To be sure:

lsof | grep deleted


In the first column, you may see the process still handling the file descriptor unclosed and preventing the disk usage reclaim even after deletion.

The solution: systemctl restart rsyslog.service or kill the guilty process.