Hi,

This morning I spotted one .nfs file (.nfs05b600005000006) on our linux
server (OS: redhat), which is 3 gb.

Is it safe to delete it? And what kind of file is it?

Could it be generated when some jobs (like gunzip) are abnormally
interrupted? (power outrage happened when we were doing gunzip last
night)

Thank you.
Jerry

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On 17 Nov 2005 08:38:47 -0800, Jerry
<greenmt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This morning I spotted one .nfs file (.nfs05b600005000006) on our linux
> server (OS: redhat), which is 3 gb.
>
> Is it safe to delete it? And what kind of file is it?
>
It's a temporary file created when the connection between nfs server and
client is broken.  It should go away when the connection is restored.
If not, look around and see if you are missing any 3GB files.
You can use "file" to see what kind of file it is.



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In article <ek2v43-1f4.ln1@don.localnet>,
Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote:

> On 17 Nov 2005 08:38:47 -0800, Jerry
>   <greenmt@gmail.com> wrote: 
> It's a temporary file created when the connection between nfs server and
> client is broken.  It should go away when the connection is restored.
> If not, look around and see if you are missing any 3GB files.
> You can use "file" to see what kind of file it is.

No it is not.

It's created by an NFS client when a file that's still open is removed,
so that the process can continue to access the file.  It will go away
when all the processes that have the file open on that client close the
file (or exit, which will automatically close all their open files).

To demonstrate this, do the following on an NFS client (my comments are
in parentheses):

sleep 100 > temp.file &
ls -i temp.file
rm temp.file
ls -i .nfs*
(this should show a .nfs file with the same inode number that temp.file
had)
kill %1
ls -i .nfs*
(that .nfs file should be gone now)

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