We have had a similar circumstance and not gotten the space back until we kicked all the users off.
I am on Solaris, not AIX. I have a little UNIX script that I try and run before doing an 'rm' on a file: #!/bin/ksh #getting names on fuser command filename=$1 if [ "$filename" = "" ];then echo Usage $0 file name to check for in use exit 1; fi if [ ! -f $filename ];then echo $0: Unable to Open $filename exit 1; fi for x in `fuser -u $filename 2>&1 | tr ")o(" "\n" | cut -d\( -f2` do grep $x /etc/passwd|cut -d: -f5| sort -u done To use it, I do: file.in.use /mccbase3/udthome3/MCC.MP/VOC ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/