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| Nov 30, 2010 at 16:08 | comment | added | morgant |
I've found the culprits: lots of files like /private/var/folders/zz/zzzivhrRnAmviuee+++++++++++/-Tmp-/termIdFile.XXXXXX being held open by mds (Spotlight), but which are no longer files on disk. Unfortunately, they neither have "deleted" appended to their description by lsof, nor have a type of "DEL". I still appreciate the suggestion.
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| Nov 29, 2010 at 23:00 | comment | added | morgant |
I'll certainly try it again when the volume is nearly full to see if maybe there just weren't any culprits at the time I ran sudo lsof | grep deleted.
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| Nov 29, 2010 at 22:34 | comment | added | James L | Ah sorry, it works on Linux | |
| Nov 29, 2010 at 22:20 | comment | added | morgant |
That doesn't return any results. The man page for lsof 4.82 notes that "(deleted)" will be appended under Solaris 10 and later if using the "-X" option (which isn't even available on OS X). The man page also implies that under Linux there's a "DEL" type for deleted maps, but sudo lsof -s | awk '$5 == "REG"' doesn't pull up anything.
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| Nov 29, 2010 at 22:06 | history | answered | James L | CC BY-SA 2.5 |