Hello
I had a similar problem in the past: i had snapshots policies that did hourly snapshots and retain the last hours + 3 days + 4 weeks . the disk space was released after i deleted snapshots as the deletion of files doesn't delete the snapshoted hdfs data's blocs
i also emptied my HDFS Trash and checked that all users HDFS Trash DIRs where empty or small.
maybe tha could help
Regards