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Subject: Re: Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...
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At 02:40 PM 7/28/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is 
>currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ...

Are you out of inodes? df -i


>Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this "immense" 
>file?

fstat will give you that info.

-Glenn


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