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Re: Full Hard Disk ?



On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 07:34:42PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> If a program/daemon is open, and the libraries it is using are deleted,
> without the program being restarted, the kernel won't be able to free the
> space used by the libraries, and you won't be able to account for the loss of
> space.  Restart any daemon that has been running for a long time.

memstat and recent lsof is able to show you those open but deleted files.
You can also see them in /proc filesystem.

Greetings
Bernd
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