Sirulnick, Steve wrote on 01/16/2006 07:33:45 PM: > I keep deleting files from AIX, but when I run a df -k, the amount of free > space seems to be decreasing as opposed to increasing. Is there anything I > can do to free up more disk space?
If somebody has a file open when you delete it, the directory entry will be removed but the space will not be reclaimed until after the file is closed. The process(es) will continue to read and even update the original contents in the original location. That is consistent with what you're seeing. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait until everybody who opened the now-deleted file has closed it. If the system isn't too busy, you may be able to track something down with filemon, but that's a real shot in the dark, since the only reference available will be by device and i-node, and you probably don't know what those were and there's no way to find out anymore. Tim Snyder Consulting I/T Specialist , U2 Professional Services North American Lab Services DB2 Information Management, IBM Software Group 717-545-6403 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
