How long until Deleted Content from Distribution Point frees disk space?

Hopefully this is an easy question for you guys with more experience with the product.
Yesterday, I created a new software distribution group for Office 2013 SP1, both 32 and 64bit.   I didn't really understand at the time that it was going to download nearly 8GB into my /sources folder...which is where I save my package contents.  I
would have not expected this download to exceed approx 2GB.
Since I indicated that it should also be distributed to my Distribution point, which is the same server, it also increased the disk usage in the /sccmcontentlib folder, as well as increasing the amount of space used in my SQLDatabase which is on the same
drive.  It was never deployed to anything.
Since I'm not yet ready to deploy this update to clients, but have a few others things to do instead, I wanted to delete the content from the distribution point to free up some disk space.
I went into Software Library, Deployment Packages, went to properties of my Office2012_SP1 deployment, went to Content Locations, picked my single distribution point from the list, and chose Remove.
However, no disk space was cleared on my drive.   I've still got 6GB free on my 120GB volume, so I'm not out of space.    
Is this something where a scheduled job will come through and process this removal and free up the disk space?   Or is there a way to kick of the process manually?    

It was never setup as an application. 
It was a Windows Update, which was added to a software update group.  Then, I went to the software update group and right clicked and chose Download.  I created a new deployment package, and then distributed the content to one of my distribution
point.
By doing that, I understood that it would create the D:\sources\WindowsUpdates\Office2013_SP1 folder and put the deployment files there.  And I also see that because that content was set to a distribution point, it copied it there into the ContentLib.
So, I wanted to remove the data from ContentLib, so I went to the Deployment Package, went to Content locations and removed my Distribution Point.   
So, are you saying that in order to remove the ContentLib, that I have to remove the entire Deployment Package?   
I thought by removing the Content Location it would remove it from the DP, and if I later wanted to add it back ,I could go back to the Deployment Package, go into Properties and add a DP back to the content location.

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