This is some good information for me. Thank you for your reply. I, however, did a "sync" on the device and everything fell in line. I was using rm to delete files, but no one was in them.
One thing that I did notice that may be odd is when I run a df -k I see /dev/lv02 53379072 11705044 79% 102001 7% Where "102001" is the Iused and 7% is the %iused. If I've been deleting files, should that number (and possibly percentage) also increase? Steve -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Mongiovi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] Freeing up AIX disk space I wrote this last night, but for some reason it didn't get sent ... -Chuck --- > 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. Does your free space always decrease that quickly? It sounds like you're deleting the files (with "rm"?) and the reason that you're not getting the space back is that the files are in use by another process .. Try the "df -d" command to see if there's deleted files pending .. If you log them off, you'll get the space back .. So if the "person" that's got the files opened is a phantom or daemon, you'd have to stop that process as well .. Before you do deletes, you should run the "fuser -f filename" (or "fuser -c /filesystem") command to see if someone's using the file .. If files AREN'T in use, you should get the space back immediately .. If they're not in use, you'd be safe to resize them on the fly (if the resize is quick) .. If you're on UDT, i've got a script that I use that uses fuser and then figures out what UDT users are involved using "listuser" .. HTH / chuck ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
