topic Re: can't empty /tmp directory in Operating System - HP-UX

can't empty /tmp directory

Erol KAHRAMAN — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:44:17 GMT

hi,

i have a rp3440 box with HP-UPiv1. Today i tried to empty my /tmp dir. I erased all unnecessary files. In spite of the fact that i erased files, the /tmp dir is seemed to be %100 full. What could be a problem?

Re: can't empty /tmp directory

Pete Randall — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:46:45 GMT

The problem is most likely that the file is still opened by a process. Until that process terminates, the file descriptor will still be held open and the space occupied by the file will not be released.

A reboot may well be the quickest way to cure this.

Pete

Re: can't empty /tmp directory

Matti_Kurkela — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:53:01 GMT

If you have the "lsof" utility installed, you can use "lsof +aL1 /tmp" to find all the files that were deleted but are still open... and you will also get the PIDs of the processes holding them open.

Stopping those processes will allow the disk space to be freed without a reboot.

MK

Re: can't empty /tmp directory

Rita C Workman — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:01:03 GMT

Have you tried the fuser -cu /tmp to see who or what might be holding on to the process.
And if you can figure out which, then maybe fuser -ku to see if that will kill it off.

If those don't work, then try rebooting.

Rgrds,
Rita

Re: can't empty /tmp directory

Erol KAHRAMAN — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:47:11 GMT

Thanks all,

I killed all processes using /tmp dir. And my problem was solved.