.nfs file

[Atil Volkan Yildirim]

Hi there,
Some files named like .nfs(andsom numbers following that) is being created Under my NFSmounted directory.
(and very big in size),

Any idea about what causes this?

thanks..

[John Dvorchak]

When you say "nfs mounted directory" does that mean that your machine is mounting a filesystem from some other machine, or the other way around? Who owns the files? One the owner is determined, I would query that person.

[S.K. Chan]

What happened is if someone deleted a file (that's still being accessed or open by some process/application) that was NFS mounted from a FS, that file will be renamed to .nfsXXXXX . This file will remain on your system until the application that opens it at the first place terminate. Sometimes this doesn't happen, meaning the .nfsXXXX remains even though the process that access to it has ended. In such case you can simply delete that file. It is best that you find out what's the nature of that file, checking the content may give you a hint and which process is likely to access to it so that you can terminate that process to close the file, then delete that file.

[Armin Kunaschik]

Hi there,

I saw this on HP-UX 11.00 mounting Netapp-Filer.
The problem appeared mostly when Java programs where used so the application seems to be somewhat involved... but not only.
But updating to the latest NFS patchlevel (and Ontap on Netapp)
reduced the problem, even though it did not completely remove it.
We ended up in a root cronjob that deletes the files.

If there's a better solution, please tell me! :-)

Armin

[IT Response · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Heres a good explanation of that from the ITRC Knowledge Base, document i.d. KBAN00000887

[Atil Volkan Yildirim]

Thanks to all,
I think I've fixed the problem...
regards...