bdf /tmp shows 100% full

[Bill Hassell]

Unfortunately, fuser missies about 50% of processes that have open files on a mountpoint. The tool of choice (until fuser is rewritten) is lsof (list open files). You can download lsof from the Liverpool Archive at: http://hpux.connect.org.uk/
Search for lsof

[Ravi S. Banda]

Thanks, Bill.
We're on hp-ux 11.00, though. http://hpux.connect.org.uk shows only for 11i pa-risc and itanium 2.

Where can I download for 11.0?
Thanks!
Ravi.

[Bill Hassell]

The author is Vic Abell and he has a web page for lsof at: http://people.freebsd.org/~abe/

[A. Clay Stephenson]

And this points to the problem I was alluding to earlier --- you should not be using /tmp for user processes (even cron jobs). The current convention (now well over a decade old) is to use /var/tmp for these temporary files. You should change your scripts/programs to reflect this and see that TMPDIR is not set to /tmp.

[Sorrel G. Jakins]

You need a utlity called lsof.
then lsof|grep /tmp will show who and what is using /tmp