Hi All, I have a process which has opened about ten files but only one of them is currently in use. Each of these ten files is quite large (about 100MB per each file) and the partition is getting full now (80% full). Therefore, I use gzip to compress the other nine files to save some space. However, I found that the disk usage is not decreased but increased to 85% after gzip! When I use lsof to check the files opened by that process, it shows some files are marked deleted as below tecs 17138 tecs 9w REG 104,3 113490637 98458 /logs/output.log.20050308 (deleted) The system is still holding the file descriptors and not released. What should I do to free the space? I cannot stop the process because it is on production now. If I use cp /proc/17138/fd/9 to /logs/output.log.20050308, it will recover the original file, but lsof still shows deleted. Therefore, I cannot use cat /dev/null > /logs/output.log.20040308 to truncate the file. Is there any method which can recover the original file such that I can truncate it and save the disk space? Or, how do I close the file descriptor on other process without stopping the process (assumed that I have root priviledge)? Thanks in advance. Anson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
