phantom quota usage for user with no files ... ?

[Oliver Fromme]

Gore Jarold wrote:
 > Steven Hartland wrote:
 > > Files which where open at the time and hence still have references
 > > similar to how deleted files still take up space until the last
 > > handle is closed.
 > 
 > Can you tell me, how do I:
 > 
 > a) see those handles (ps auxw|grep USERNAME showed nothing)

You can easily use lsof for that.  To list deleted open
files with link count 0, use this command:   lsof +L1

 > b) remove/clear them ?

That depends on the programs that keep the files open.
Some programs close the file handles when you send them
a SIGHUP signal (i.e. "kill -HUP <PIDs>").  The PIDs are
displayed by the lsof command above.  If that doesn't
help, terminate the processes forcibly, if necessary.
When a process terminates, all of its file desciptors
are closed automatically.

Best regards
   Oliver

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