How does one find large files that have been deleted but are still open in an application? How can one remove such a file, even though a process has it open? The situation is that we are running a

If a running program still has the deleted file open, you can recover the file through the open file descriptor in /proc/[pid]/fd/[num]. To determine if this is the case, you can attempt the …

Jan 31, 2015 · 35 Files are deleted from filesystem where is deleted any reference to this inode. Reference can be on disk (link in any directory), and.. from open applications. If you remove …

May 14, 2023 · Is there a command to recover/undelete deleted files by rm? rm -rf /path/to/myfile How can I recover myfile? If there is a tool to do this, how can I use it?

Feb 28, 2019 · They just get deleted. Preferably without making it complicated with | xarg .. or -exec rm {}, is there any magic flag to see the deleted files when using find . -iname .DS_Store …

You can use the entries in /proc to truncate such files. # ls -l /proc/4315/fd That will show all the files opened by process 4315. You've already used lsof and that shows that the deleted file is …

Dec 28, 2024 · With sudo, you had full access to the mount, and so server B did exactly what you asked and deleted everything it could access within the mount point. Is there any way to …

Nov 4, 2013 · I accidentally deleted a file from my laptop. I'm using Fedora. Is it possible to recover the file?

Apr 7, 2015 · I have found the command to delete files older than 5 days in a folder find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \\; But how do I also do this for subdirectories in that folder?

Jul 14, 2021 · -1 one of my friend accidently deleted all files (jpg and pdf) from file server by using rm -rf command .is there is a way to recover those files with actual file names? key points - …