topic Re: Text file busy in Operating System - Linux

Text file busy

subrat chaudhary — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:11:26 GMT

Can some one please tell me how to find out the proccess ID that is holding up a file.

I am attempting to remove a file and I am getting a message stating that it is busy.

i.e

rm filename
filename: 777 mode ? (y/n) y
rm: filename not removed. Text file busy

Thanks in advance.

Re: Text file busy

Peter Godron — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:15:32 GMT

Hi,
you could try the fuser command to see what processes are using the disk.
ps -ef | grep filename may also show something.

But the real solution is to install lsof
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.77/

Re: Text file busy

subrat chaudhary — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:42:34 GMT

A lot of Thanks ...

Re: Text file busy

Dennis Handly — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:08:26 GMT

You can always rename the file even if it is busy:
$ cp .../filename filename.new
$ ln filename filename.old
$ ln -f filename.new filename