[PLUG] Out of space?
Steve Bonds
1s7k8uhcd001 at sneakemail.com
Thu Jun 24 17:49:02 UTC 2004
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Michael Montagne michael-at-themontagnes.com |PDX Linux| wrote:
> I deleted it already but oddly enough, lsof shows it still open it is
> .kde-errors. I rebooted and all is well now. Wonder what that was all
> about? Thanks for the lsof idea.
Another old-school UNIX admin trick is to "cp /dev/null .kde-errors".
This frees the file's space even if a process has it open.
Sometimes the size in "ls" will immediately jump back to its former value
but "df" should show the space still freed. (I.e. the application just
re-seeked to what it thought was the end of the file and started writing,
creating a sparse file.)
-- Steve
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