Paul Howarth wrote: > Deleting an open temp file is a fairly common technique - it prevents > other processes getting any access to the file. Vmware does that with really big files (they are the RAM of the virtual machines). You can detect such files with a simple lsof -n|grep deleted|grep /tmp Another confusing situation can happen when you use a not-empty directory as mount point. The content of the dir becomes almost invisible (including "du -sm") so you don't realize you have a lot of stuff on the disk. I don't think Joachim has mounted something inside /tmp, but knowing about this effect could be useful for someone reading the list. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
