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- From: dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: /tmp Corrupted
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 19:04:22 GMT
- Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
- Lines: 36
- Message-ID: <1defjmINN570@network.ucsd.edu>
- References: <1992Nov5.225824.3656@netcom.com> <SK.92Nov6175046@sun4.thp.uni-koeln.de>
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- In article <SK.92Nov6175046@sun4.thp.uni-koeln.de> sk@thp.uni-koeln.de (Sebastian Kremer) writes:
- >>>> In article <1992Nov5.225824.3656@netcom.com>, lui@netcom.com (Stephen Lui) writes:
- >
- >Stephen> Recently our /tmp file system started to fill up. I went to
- >Stephen> /tmp and deleted unnecessary files. However, this did not
- >Stephen> release any space in the file system according to df. I went
- >Stephen> ahead and deleted all of the files in /tmp and the file
- >Stephen> system was still 100% full!
- >
- >I've seen the same behaviour some months ago on a 550 under AIX 3.1.5.
- >It vanished after rebooting and never happened again so far. I don't
- >know of a fix or explanation.
- >--
- >
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE>
- >Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R. of Germany
- >
- >On May 17, 1992 I started a new job without email access (yet). I can
- >read my mail only occasionally. The mail address will continue to
- >work, but don't expect answers in less than a week.
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- I can't say who is doing it, but it sounds like a "phantom" file. These
- are files that programs open and then immediatley unlink for temporary
- storage space. One does this so the file disappears when the program
- finishes executing. The other problem may be that the /tmp filesystem
- got full and someone started deleting files. This won't work as long
- as a process existst out there that is still referrencing the file, because
- all rm does is unlink the file, thus causing the phantom file syndrome.
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