Deleting files not releasing space...

[ProbablyDown]

Hi folks,

One of my filesystems hit 100%, however was not released after the files were deleted.

Has anyone ever run into this before? Any ideas?

Thanks for any help...

-pd

 

[KenCunningham]

Even though the file(s) were deleted, it's possible that some application still thinks they exist and they are therefore not deleted until the app lets them go. Can you do a fuser <filename> to check whether this is the case. If so (and if possible), kill the session accessing the file(s). HTH.

 

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

See:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docvie...0%25&uid=aix1376bc0d988a92b2b852568160069ffac

Also,can unmout and fsck the filesystem,normally helps. &quot;Long live king Moshiach !&quot;

http://www.7for70.com/

 

[ProbablyDown]

Thanks guys!

fuser -dV was the answer...

Much appreciated!!
-pd

 

[AIXSPadmin]

The problem is as Ken Cunningham says, a file was deleted and the application writing to the file did not release it because there is still an open file descriptor. You have to restart that application.

 

[ProbablyDown]

Exactly...

Thanks... It was my Tivoli Storage Manager web app logs... attached to some VERY old procs that weren't being used. I have another cleanup script to write

Thanks again all!

-pd

 

[cspilman]

One thing you could do is write an 'rm' wrapper to avoid these situations in the future. Here is something to get you started:

#!/bin/ksh

OPTIONS=0
PROG='$0'

while getopts rRfie option
do
case ${option} in
r) rOPTION=&quot;-r&quot;
((OPTIONS=OPTIONS+1));;
R) ROPTION=&quot;-R&quot;
((OPTIONS=OPTIONS+1));;
f) fOPTION=&quot;-f&quot;
((OPTIONS=OPTIONS+1));;
i) iOPTION=&quot;-i&quot;
((OPTIONS=OPTIONS+1));;
e) eOPTION=&quot;-e&quot;
((OPTIONS=OPTIONS+1));;
?) echo &quot;Usage: rm [-r] [-R] [-f] [-i] [-e] File...&quot;
exit 2
esac
done

shift ${OPTIONS}

if [ &quot;${fOPTION}&quot; = &quot;&quot; ]
then
PIDLIST=`fuser ${*} 2> /dev/null | tr -d 'a-z'`

for PID in ${PIDLIST}
do
if [ ${PID} -ne ${$} ]
then
echo &quot;Removed failed. ${1} currently in use by:&quot;
echo
ps -fp `echo ${PIDLIST} | tr ' ' ','`
exit 1
fi
done
fi

if [ &quot;${rOPTION}&quot; = &quot;&quot; ]
then
rm ${ROPTION} ${fOPTION} ${iOPTION} ${eOPTION} ${*}
else
for dir in ${*}
do
FILELIST=&quot;`ls -a ${dir}/.[!.]* 2> /dev/null` `ls ${dir}`&quot;
for file in ${FILELIST}
do
if [ -d ${dir}/${file} ]
then
${PROG} -r ${ROPTION} ${fOPTION} ${iOPTION} ${eOPTION} ${dir}/${file}
else
${PROG} ${ROPTION} ${fOPTION} ${iOPTION} ${eOPTION} ${dir}/${file}
fi
done
done
fi
Regards,
Chuck