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- From: albani@cadlab.sublink.org (Lanfranco Albani)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of df and /tmp
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.083722.12257@cadlab.sublink.org>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 08:37:22 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.152235.20345@news.uakron.edu> <1992Jul20.195941.11235@sdc.com>
- Organization: CAD.LAB S.p.A., Bologna, Italia
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- kenk@sdc.com (Ken Konecki) writes:
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- :>According to DEC whom I called for help, this could occur when a process
- :>unlinks a file and just hangs or sits for a while to complete. DEC says
- :>since the file is unlinked it is not easy to get its inode to remove
- :>it... The suggested solution is to unmount
- :>/tmp file system and to run 'newfs'.
- :
- :Seems to me that rebooting would take care of the problem in a less
- :intrusive way.
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- I've found that a shutdown (go to single-user) and a fsck is
- enough.
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- Bye, Lanfranco
-
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