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Old 06-14-2009, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by benito View Post
Many thanks Spiral, +L1 shows a lot of large files deleted. There is any way to clear that w/o reboot?
Reboot would be the easiest way ...

However, you could do a "ps -ef | grep ####" where #### is the PID
shown in your 'lsof' command output next to the large files to be cleared
to find out exactly what process is holding those file pointers open
and then restart that specific process or service.
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