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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Bryan Gardiner <bog@khumba.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:56:18 +0200
>> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Because I'm too lazy to unkeyword and emerge it...  Does this program
>> show how much space is being used by deleted files?  Or, is there a way
>> to access more information about or even recover such a zombie file?
>> lsof gives its inode number, but I have no idea how to access it from
>> there.
>
> I just ran it, here's the output:
>
> Found 22 processes using old versions of upgraded files
> (15 distinct programs)
> (14 distinct packages)
>

Is there a way inside of checkrestart to determine exactly which
processes it's telling you about? When I installed it at on Niko's
suggestion I had one package but I couldn't figure out which it was. A
reboot fixed that.

Thanks,
Mark