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brad.mugleston at comcast.net brad.mugleston at comcast.net
Thu Dec 22 05:37:41 UTC 2005


>
> Remember that reclaimed space may not show up in a "du -h" command
> until ALL programs using that directory terminate or close their open
> file handles to that filesystem.  The surest way of doing that is to
> reboot or do use "lsof" or "fuser" to identify processes with open
> file descriptors on the filesystem in question and shutting down those
> processes.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -

Wow, that really helps - thanks.  I'll have to play with lsof and
fuser to see how it works.

Brad




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