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Old 01-13-2009
delete open file
hi,
I have a little problem. I deleted a file, which was opened in vim editor. it was bad idea... now "df" still display same space.
I kill process vim, but maybe file was controlled or opened by another application.
Is any eventuallity to find which process has lock file?
Command "ps -ax" show no process with deleted file name.

please, any idea?
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Old 01-13-2009
vim usually creates a swap file with filename .filename.swp for recovery of crashed sessions. If you killed vim, you may still find the .swp file. To find processes using a file try lsof.
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Old 01-14-2009
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hi, thank you for your reply.

"lsof" command did not find any swp file. But lsof displays this information "/var/www/myfile.out (deleted)" and inode number of this file.
Well, I did this:
find . -inum 123456 -exec rm -i {} \;

and everything is fine:-)
 
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