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Operating Systems AIX Can not delete Directory Post 302182877 by Clevelaw on Monday 7th of April 2008 04:18:53 PM

04-07-2008

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Originally Posted by bakunin

One possibility is that the directory is NFS-mounted, as era has already mentioned. Another possiblity would be a process that writes to this directory. Suppose a process that writes more or less constantly to a file, something like "vmstat 1 > /some/file" if you now remove "/some/file" ls will not show it, but it will still be there as long as the process (vmstat in this example) runs. You can see that by running "df" against the filesystem holding the file.

(btw. this is one excellent method to drive a Sysadmin crazy: Fill up the /tmp filesystem with such a mechanism and use a sufficiently innocent processname. No, do NOT try this on your colleague. ;-)) )

Use a tool like "fuser" to determine processes which still write to the filesystem/directory to remedy such a situation. Once you kill the process the filespace becomes available at once as the respective i-node is released automatically.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

The /home directory is mounted as JFS. It a partition on a local drive.
I tried fuser with some flags but did not get any useful information back.
bash-3.00# pwd
/home/spark/old/sp2f941
bash-3.00# fuser -d *
BUILD:
bash-3.00# cd BUILD
bash-3.00# fuser -d *
*: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
bash-3.00# fuser -dV *
*: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
bash-3.00# cd ..
bash-3.00# fuser -dV *
BUILD:

bash-3.00# fuser -u /home
/home:

bash-3.00#

Did I do the correct parameters?
here is the full results from mount.

bash-3.00# mount
node mounted mounted over vfs date options
-------- --------------- --------------- ------ ------------ ---------------
/dev/hd4 / jfs Feb 07 16:55 rw,log=/dev/hd8
/dev/hd2 /usr jfs Feb 07 16:55 rw,log=/dev/hd8
/dev/hd9var /var jfs Feb 07 16:55 rw,log=/dev/hd8
/dev/hd3 /tmp jfs Feb 07 16:55 rw,log=/dev/hd8
/dev/hd1 /home jfs Feb 07 16:56 rw,log=/dev/hd8
/proc /proc procfs Feb 07 16:56 rw
/dev/hd10opt /opt jfs Feb 07 16:56 rw,log=/dev/hd8
bash-3.00#

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xdg-user-dir

xdg-user-dir(1) 						   User Commands						   xdg-user-dir(1)

NAME

       xdg-user-dir - Get the path used for desktop user directory location.

SYNOPSIS

       xdg-user-dir DIR

DESCRIPTION

       xdg-user-dir is a utility that extracts the location of the specified desktop user directory from the file :

	   ${HOME}/.config/user-dirs.dirs

OPERANDS

       Valid desktop directories (DIR) are:

	       DESKTOP
	       DOWNLOAD
	       TEMPLATES
	       PUBLICSHARE
	       DOCUMENTS
	       MUSIC
	       PICTURES
	       VIDEOS

       If an invalid directory is requested ${HOME} is returned.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:

	   HOME.

       Other environment variable that are used are:

       XDG_CONFIG_HOME

	   Base directory for storge of XDG configuration files. Defaults to ${HOME}/.config

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/xdg-user-dir

	   XDG Directory expansion utility.

       ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs

	   Location of the user-specific configuration including the current list of directories and what they map to.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Location of user's documents directory

       % xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS

       /home/user/Documents

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWxdg-user-dirs 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Uncommitted		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       More information can be found at:

       http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

       xdg-user-dirs-update(1), xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc, 2008

SunOS 5.11							    03 Apr 2008 						   xdg-user-dir(1)

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