[PLUG] File won't stay deleted

[Ali Corbin]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:07 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 20:17:41 -0800
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>
> >Xubuntu 14.04.3, up to date. Files ystem is ext4.
> >
> >Some time ago I created an ISO image of a movie DVD. I have been
> >through with the file for some time so I no longer need it. I can
> >delete it with either Thunar or the command line, but a few hours
> >later it reappears. Each time it reappears the size of the file
> >changes, always to slightly smaller, i.e., originally it was 4.6 GB,
> >but after deleting it a dozen times it now appears as only 2.6 GB.
>
> Correction: It just reappeared again, and this time it is 4.6 GB. So it
> isn't always smaller.
>
> I wonder if some process has it open and keeps repairing it for you.
Does lsof say anything about it?