topic Re: space not relinquised when files deleted in Operating System - HP-UX

space not relinquised when files deleted

Donald Thaler — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:04:54 GMT

removed file with the 'rm' command, files were removed but when i run the bdf command the space for the directory still shows the amount that was there before the files were deleted.
Running hpux 11i...

Re: space not relinquised when files deleted

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:07:12 GMT

It sounds like the files were still in use by a process when you rm'ed them.

One should always do an 'fuser -u ' before removing a file to see if it is in use.

The space will only be freed up when the process using the file completes.

Re: space not relinquised when files deleted

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:16:15 GMT

Do a "man 2 unlink" (yeah, I know you ain't no C programmer) but if you read this here man page, you will never have to ask this question again.

Re: space not relinquised when files deleted

Sandman! — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:50:56 GMT

If you have lsof then use the command below to find out which deleted files are still being held open by processes running on the system.

# lsof +aL1 /mount_point