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Old 02-02-2012
This is a sandbox and Informatica was shut down normally.

I have to check with my UNIX Admin to see if backup was done or not.

When I issue the command: ps, then the I see a process if for my login session.

So when I do fuser -ck dir/subdir then it kills the unix login session.
# 9  
Old 02-02-2012
You've gone back to not posting the exact command or the exact error message.

For fuser -c /dir/subdir to work, the target must have been a mountpoint.
We hope you have a record of what you have been deleting. The Informatica suite is notorious for creating a ridiculous number of files but you would normally configure the cleanup of dead wood in Informatica itself.
# 10  
Old 02-02-2012
You are on a AIX system so fstab would be /etc/filesystems
Was it because you were somewhere on the dir/subdir when you issued the fuser -ck command?
A good test would be to unmount the filesystem now and see if you still have I/O messages...
# 11  
Old 02-03-2012
Hi All,
Thanks for all your comments and good info. I sent an email to our AIX Admin and he probably unmounted the file system and mounted again and everything is working fine. He did not tell me what he did, but oh well, it works now.

I was able to delete those directories.

Smilie
 
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