on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:44AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball (bfk@footbag.org) wrote: > Michael P. Soulier wrote: <...> > kmself's point is that the file isn't deleted until the process stops > using it. If you rm the file first, you won't know which process is > keeping the disk space occupied by using the file. Not strictly. You can track things down through lsof or the /proc filesystem, but it's hard to work out what files are then accounting for large amounts of disk utilization. In other words -- it's a hell of a lot easier to deal with a file if you've got a file to deal with, rather than just a filehandle (lsof). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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