I had removed large log files, but that hadn't made a difference to the filesystem space. I stopped and restarted xinetd daemon. My used filespace went from 100% to 20%. Apparently, just removing large files may not be enough, processes need to be restarted too.
this will be because removing the file simply unlinks the inode, the process is still busy writing data to the disk (removing it simply makes the file "invisible" for want of a better explanation) and when you restart the process the file is closed, then the disk space free'd up.
(this is a simplification as to what goes on but you get the idea :-) )
-- Steve.
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