On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:06, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:55:41PM +0200, Michael Hoennig wrote: > > ok, then at least lsof should report such files. Actually I forgot > > something: Even after all processes holding this file handle, the storage > > was never freed, only after umount/mount! > > In my experience, lsof has at times been broken on Linux. This is no > wonder, as lsof supports lots of *nix systems, and some of the interfaces > are fragile. Also, be sure to run it as root; depending on how things > are installed (e.g., which kernel, suid bits), you may not see process info > that you can't access in /proc. > > The simplest way to see what processes are standing on a filesystem is > to use (as root) > > /sbin/fuser -m <mntpoint> > Yep. That is a good way to get the list of processes that have something open on a filesystem. A way to get the (old) names of the deleted but still open files is to do (as root): ls -l /proc/*/fd | fgrep '(deleted)' This should not miss any, and AFAIK it's quite stable as an interface. To get just the ones for a particular process do ls -l /proc/pid/fd where pid is the process ID. Regards, Diego -- ------------------------------------------------------- Diego Santa Cruz PhD. student Publications available at http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta Signal Processing Institute (LTS1 / ITS / STI) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) EPFL - STI - ITS, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: Diego.SantaCruz@epfl.ch Phone: +41 - 21 - 693 26 57 Fax: +41 - 21 - 693 76 00 -------------------------------------------------------
