Recovering disk space from deleted file

Richard Pieri richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 20 13:28:15 EST 2010


On Dec 20, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Matt Shields wrote:
> 
> being take up, but checking the directory the file is gone and checking lsof
> I don't see the file being accessed, so it had to have been deleted.

A process still holds a file handle for that file.  Use "lsof +L" to find it.

--Rich P.




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