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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory mv files still in use - space not freed Post 302156680 by frank_rizzo on Tuesday 8th of January 2008 06:47:07 PM
Old 01-08-2008
fuser will show open files that have been deleted on a given file system. Until that process is stopped the space will not be freed. Before messing with files make sure no process has it open with fuser.
 

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libnls(3LIB)							Interface Libraries						      libnls(3LIB)

NAME
libnls - network listener service library SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lnls [ library... ] DESCRIPTION
The functions in this library interact with the network listener daemon, listen(1M). The functions are provided for services invoked by the listener daemon and for clients that connect to the services using listen. INTERFACES
The shared object libnls.so.1 provides the public interfaces defined below. See intro(3) for additional information on shared object inter- faces. nlsgetcall nlsprovider nlsrequest FILES
/usr/lib/libnls.so.1 shared object /usr/lib/64/libnls.so.1 64-bit shared object ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsl (32-bit) | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | |SUNWcslx (64-bit) | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
listen(1M), intro(3), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 24 Aug 2004 libnls(3LIB)
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