From: Jan-Frode Myklebust (janfrode@parallab.uib.no)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 06:06:27 EDT
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:01:37PM +0530, Praveen Kumar K (TSE-IFT-ITPL) wrote:
> Hi,
> We have an application running on AIX. During one of the process the
> application generates a file,which was unfortunately deleted while the
> application the file was being updated..From next moment onwards we started
> observing that the free space in the File system is getting reduced but the
> file is not being seen...Can someone throw some light on this and give me
> the probable reason for this...
Deleting an open file will not lead to the file contents being removed
before the file is closed. The application writing to the file can
continue to do so, even though you don't see the filename in the
filesystem.
If you stop/kill the application writing to the file, the space used
by the file will be released.
-jf
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