From: Coyle, Jack (Jack.Coyle@REXHEALTH.COM)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 07:07:37 EDT
I am pretty sure you should be able to use lsof (available from Bull, I
believe) to find the offending file. Per the documentation, you can use the
command syntax
lsof +L1 (that is a numeric "one")
which says to find all open files that have a link count less than 1.
Jack Coyle
Rex Healthcare
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> From: Bill Thompson[SMTP:bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM]
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 6:34 AM
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> 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.)
>
> Bill Thompson
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Green, Simon
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> 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.
>
>
>
> Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Othman, Asmah-Julaili SITI-ITDGP3-302
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> Sent: 09 July 2003 04:01
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> Subject: /tmp utilization
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>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> My /tmp utilization is showing 100% full. But after deleting all files,
> the utilization still 100% - unless i reboot the system. What is the
> cause & how can i solve this?
>
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