Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:56:18 +0200
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:

> On 08/03/12 16:55, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> >>> It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df
> >>> reports considerably less space available on my / than before the
> >>> emerge
> >>
> >> That's because the old files are not being deleted since they are
> >> in use.  When you logout of KDE and restart the whole stack
> >> (/etc/init.d/xdm restart) then everything will be back to normal.
> >
> > By jove, that's definitely it. I knew about this fact from other
> > use cases (like deleting a video file which I'm still watching. HA,
> > do that, Windows!), but never thought of it regarding emerging. I
> > always assumed for some reason that the files were kept in RAM and
> > the physical file itself was no longer relevant. Just closing all
> > programs before logging out gave back around 350 M.
> 
> I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any 
> deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes: 
> "app-admin/checkrestart".  I usually run it after world updates so I
> can tell whether I need a restart or not.
> 
> 
> 

Why go to the effor tof emerging another package? Use what you already
have:

lsof | egrep '(deleted)$'

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Alan McKinnnon
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