Unref'ed Inodes

2007-12-25 11:19:00

Hi All

Many thanks to those of you who responded;

Melanie Dymond Harper <mel@vanyel.herald.co.uk>

Martin Espinoza <drink@sei.com>

steveb@pcs.co.uk (Steve Butterfield)

As most of you pointed out this problem arose by deleting an open file, I was

given these options;

Use 'clri' (see man page)

echo > filename;rm filename

cat /dev/null > filename

Please find attached original question.

Regards,

Stephen.

Stephen Johnston wrote:

> Hi All

> I have an Ultra 140 with 160Mb of RAM running Solaris 2.5.

> There is a certain amount of swap in the root partition, this is a permenant

> swap file.

> We have a piece of code (HSpice to be exact - an analogue simulator) which is

> running out of swap. When this happens it creates a file of messages saying

> so as some simulations run overnight this file eventually fills up the root

> partition.

> We kill the HSpice job which ran out of space thus freeing the swap. We

> remove the file of error messages but the space on / is not freed. An fsck

> -n show an unref'ed Inode for the file. Can anyone suggested how we can free

> this space, not being able to run fsck on amounted f/s we can't do that, nor

> are we in a position to add more swap or memory?

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Stephen Johnston, Systems Manager Tel: +44 131 6679386
Wolfson Microelectronics Fax: +44 131 6675176
Edinburgh
EH8 9NX

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