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Re: lsof anyone ?



"Peter L. Peres" <plp@actcom.co.il> writes:

>   If any1 here is using lsof on Linux, please tell me how (well) it works. 

It knows where to read about files' users.

> I have located lsof sources on CSI and they are HUGE. I want to know
> before I get it. Is there an alternative ? 
> 

fuser

>   In particular, what can be done to directories and files that were
> orphaned by a network failure while NFS-mounted ? They wind up with a link
> count of 2 or more and 'umount -f' says it can't do forced umounts yet (I
> had thought that a decent hacker O/S would have things like 'umount -f'
> *first*, and then a kernel ;) ?). 
> 

Not much help over here. Lately, lsof somehow stopped working for me.
Fortunately, I don't have to use it often.

Yet another way to answer a question about file users is to browse
/proc/*/fd for symlinks to [device]:inode

-- 
Alexander L. Belikoff
Bloomberg LP / BFM Financial Research Ltd.
abel@bfr.co.il