Re: Phantom disk space

In article <01bbca96$805cef60$1d23e2c0_at_intd21518.mdshealth.com>, "Tim Antler" <tantler_at_mdshealth.com> writes:
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> [ Considerable space is being used, even though there are apparently
> no files using it. ]

This particular symtom is common when one or more processes have a file open on the file system, but have removed the name. The space will remain allocated until the file is closed. You'll want to see what processes still have files open on the file system. Lsof may be the best such program, though I don't where it can be found. -
>Tim Antler

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