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I have noticed that my hard drive space is being consumed by a long running process, but I was not able to find the file(s) that are consuming the space.

I suspect the files are temporary files, using the open-and-remove technique to orphan the inode(s), so that when the program terminates (gracefully or crash) that the temporary files get cleaned up automatically. My suspicion is based on exiting a specific application and seeing my hard drive space go from "almost full" 1% available to "mostly empty" 85% available.

Is there a way to get an ls of current orphaned inodes of each of my mounted file systems?

In particular, I'd like to know their sizes. In bytes or blocks, whichever is easiest to retrieve.

Can lsof be of use here? Since I already know the suspect process, or one-or-more of its child processes.

Eljay
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    This Q/A might help: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68523/find-and-remove-large-files-that-are-open-but-have-been-deleted – A.B Oct 31 '22 at 18:44
  • @A.B • thank you! lsof +L1 did the trick for what I needed for now, and looks like there is more capabilities there for what I'll need next. – Eljay Oct 31 '22 at 19:11

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