On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:27:04PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:44AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > <...> > > > kmself's point is that the file isn't deleted until the process stops > > using it. If you rm the file first, you won't know which process is > > keeping the disk space occupied by using the file. > > Not strictly. You can track things down through lsof or the /proc > filesystem, but it's hard to work out what files are then accounting for > large amounts of disk utilization. In other words -- it's a hell of a > lot easier to deal with a file if you've got a file to deal with, rather > than just a filehandle (lsof).
lsof +L1 only shows deleted files and the pid holding them open, ready for a kill -9. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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