[OT] Hardlinks and directories

[Suvayu Ali]

On Friday 12 February 2010 09:19 AM, Mikkel wrote:
> On 02/12/2010 09:29 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>
>> lsof would allow you to find the processes that have the files open. And then
>> you could kill those processes to release the space. It looks like you should
>> be able to get size infomation of these files from lsof as well. So one
>> could script looking for processes that have large files open.
>
> You might want to try using the +L1 and the -s options. It will
> display the sizes of unlinked (deleted) files.
>
> lsof +L1 -s

I am not entirely clear about this part, how does one end up with an 
un-named open file. To simulate the situation I tried to open a text 
file with an editor and then removed it with rm. But it doesn't show up 
in `lsof +L1' as I was expecting it to. Am I understanding this the 
wrong way?

>
> Mikkel
>

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