Removing a "busy" text file?

Gunnar Kramm gkramm at speakeasy.net
Sun Jan 30 20:44:29 UTC 2005


On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:19:44PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:11 pm, Mike Klinke flailed at a keyboard and 
> produced this:
> > On Sunday 30 January 2005 13:59, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> >  
> > > How could the file be busy?  I'm not looking at it in any other
> > > program.  I've tried to delete it in several ways, even su'ing to
> > > root to do so.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?  What could be causing this, and how can I fix it?
> > 
> > As root, does "lsof <filename>" show any processes associated with 
> > the file?
> 
> # lsof Concerning\ Hobbits.mp3
> 
> yields nothing.  Bah.
> 
[snip]

Try (as root)
lsof | grep "Concerning Hobbits.mp3"


That ought to tell you what PID has the file open
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