From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 07:07:45 EDT
Perhaps you might like to look at the man page, too.
"fuser -Vd" reports on open files which have been deleted and shows both the
size of the file and the IDs of all processes concerned.
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Thompson [mailto:bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM]
> Sent: 09 July 2003 11:35
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: /tmp utilization
>
>
> "fuser" will not help if the file has already been deleted.
> You need to run
> fuser *before* deleting a file to insure that the file is not
> currently
> open by some process.
>
> The only way to regain the space used by this file is to stop
> the process
> that has the file open. Unfortunately there is no way that I
> know of to
> identify the process once the file is gone. If you cannot
> identify and stop
> the offending process the only option is to reboot. (Note:
> You will know if
> you've stopped the right process as the space in temp will be
> recovered
> immediately.)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Green, Simon
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.aix-l
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 3:10 AM
> Subject: Re: /tmp utilization
>
> There is probably an open file which has been deleted.
> Check the "fuser" man page for information on how to
> identify this file
> and the process using it. Once you've killed the process
> the space will
> be released.
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