Removing a "busy" text file?
Richard S. Crawford
rscrawford at mossroot.com
Sun Jan 30 20:18:55 UTC 2005
On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:11 pm, Tim Smith flailed at a keyboard and
produced this:
> Well, in the extreme a reboot should fix it, but you don't really want to do
> that. The /sbin/fuser command (part of the psmisc package) will tell you
> what process is holding the file open. You can then kill the process in
> question (most likely a KDE ioslave), and you should be able to remove the
> file.
Hm. Running:
# /sbin/fuser Concerning\ Hobbits.mp3
yields nothing.
Still can't delete it.
Something I forgot to mention: the directory ~/music is actually a symlink to
a Samba share on a RH8 computer in my house which has all of our MP3 files.
--
Slainte,
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