> I tried lsof, but unless I can figure out a way to grep or filter the >results it is useless - pages and pages of incomprehensible stuff.
You mean like piping it through grep or specify the file & path directly. On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:42 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:24:20 -0800 > Ali Corbin <[email protected]> dijo: > > >On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:07 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > >wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 20:17:41 -0800 > >> John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > >> > >> >Xubuntu 14.04.3, up to date. Files ystem is ext4. > >> > > >> >Some time ago I created an ISO image of a movie DVD. I have been > >> >through with the file for some time so I no longer need it. I can > >> >delete it with either Thunar or the command line, but a few hours > >> >later it reappears. Each time it reappears the size of the file > >> >changes, always to slightly smaller, i.e., originally it was 4.6 GB, > >> >but after deleting it a dozen times it now appears as only 2.6 GB. > >> > >> Correction: It just reappeared again, and this time it is 4.6 GB. So > >> it isn't always smaller. > > >> I wonder if some process has it open and keeps repairing it for you. > >Does lsof say anything about it? > > I tried lsof, but unless I can figure out a way to grep or filter the > results it is useless - pages and pages of incomprehensible stuff. > > But since my original post I have additional information. I tried to > rename it, just to see what would happen. A short while later the > original reappeared alongside the renamed version. Now I have two that > I can't get rid of. This is not an improvement! > > And then I tried double-clicking on the files. This launched K3b (my > default burner), but for each file K3b threw an error saying that it > couldn't open the file. So maybe the files really are not there; what > I'm seeing is some ghost image. But the ghost image appears in both > Thunar and the terminal. And deleting them with Thunar or the command > line makes the ghost disappear, but only for a while. > > Any more suggestions? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
