Interesting fs usage issue

Gavin Atkinson gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Tue Mar 22 12:17:42 PST 2005


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, David D.W. Downey wrote:

> >
> > You probably have a process holding a reference to a file that's been
> > unlinked.  Run "fstat -f /tmp" to see.
> >
>
> fbdev# fstat -f /tmp
> USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT      INUM MODE         SZ|DV R/W
> fbdev#
>
> Nothing shows at *all*. Which is weird. I've currently several screen
> sessions open, which uses /tmp (as seen by an ls of /tmp which shows
> the proper timestamps as expected for each session).
>
> Would that not generate a response from fstat since the screens are
> active?

fstat is currently broken in -CURRENT.
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-current/2005-March/047656.html

I have no idea if the lsof port will still work since those changes, I
suspect not but it might be worth a try.

Gavin


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