Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:14:00AM +0000, J.A. de Vries wrote:
> On 2006-11-15 @ 22:27:03 (week 46) Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, something is there. Try using
> > 
> > # lsof
> 
> Ah, hadn't thought of lsof or fuser yet. Good reminder, thanks!
> 
> I tried both but lsof didn't list the file as being used and fuser
> couldn't find the file at all ("No such file or directory").
> 
> > He probably has a file which has been deleted, but which
> > some process still has open. This causes the directory
> > entry to be marked "for deletion", but for the allocation
> > not to be released to free space until the last process
> > has closed the file.

I thought that a deleted file that was still being read *was* unlinked 
from the directory, just not removed from the disk until it was closed.

-- hendrik

> 
> That's exactly what I thought when you mentioned lsof, but that doesn't
> seem to be the case here.