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Jerry Heyman (jerry@austin.ibm.com) wrote:

> In article <1gq77qINNmm4@rs6000.bham.ac.uk>, usenet@rs6000.bham.ac.uk (USENET News Service) writes:
> > 
> > If i run /usr/local/news/bin/expire to expire articles, it runs through
> > ok, building a new history.n history file. When it is finished, the new
> > history file is copied to the old one, as you'd expect. The problem
> > arises when i do a 'df' command on the partition, and i find that
> > the space taken up by the two history files has not been reclaimed by
> > the system, consequently leaving me with little disk space. By shutting
> > down and restarting the server, the space becomes available. 

> This isn't necessarily an AIX problem.  As with all Un*x's that I've used,
> if process A has a file open and that file is then deleted by process B,
> the file for all future process has been removed from the directory, but the 
> actual space is not reclaimed for the file system until process A has terminated
> and released that inode.

> What you need to look for is old running processes that may be utilizing that
> old history file and kill them.  The reason the space is being reclaimed when
> you shutdown the server is because any of the processes holding open the file
> are killed when the server is restarted.

ok, i found a reader in a CLOSING state - i know i've seen something somewhere
about how to get around this, but cant for the life of me remember where it
was. 

Just to make matters worse, there was so much news that the disks were getting
very full....

thanks for the help.

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