On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:13:37PM +0200, Michael Hoennig wrote: > That IS the reason, and I found the cause: There was a nohup job writing > to nohup.out, which was deleted every 30 minutes by a cronjob instead of > truncated. These dead nohup.outs were not reported by lsof, and of cause > not linked in the file system anymore, but yet using up space. Isn't the > last point a bug? Of course not; you have a file descriptor to which you can (in the general case) read/write/seek arbitrarily. It needs to be stored *somewhere* and that is in the filesystem. This behaviour has been used for implementing temporary files that are automatically cleaned up (see tmpfile(3)) upon file close / program exit for a *long* time. Cheers, Bill Rugolsky
