Summary: Log file removed still taking up space.

From: Michael Segale (msegale_at_us.ibm.com)
Date: 05/26/05

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Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 14:33:39 -0400

    All, I killed the process ID that was writing to the log and the disk space
    was available again. Thanks for your help

    Michael Segale Unix Sys Admin

                                                                               
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    All,
          I removed a log file that was in /etc while there was still a process
    writing to it and du shows its gone but df shows it still taking up space.
    I know the process IDs that were writing to it when I deleted it.
          Anyone have any ideas on recovering the space without rebooting?

    Michael Segale Unix Sys Admin
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