Disc Free (df) weirdness (FC2)

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 18:19:21 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:49, Mike McCarty wrote:

> > Just because you don't run them, doesn't mean that you don't have a bunch of 
> > programs running. just do a ps -ef and you'll see how much there is - even on 
> > an idle system you often have a few dozen processes. 
> 
> Yes, I am aware. But what process would have consumed about 1G, and then
> deleted it, while *another* process had it also opened?

It's a moderately common practice for programs to delete their own
files while still holding them open and using them.  I can't think of
any that do offhand, but...

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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