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FSCK keeps hitting locked files

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 7:47 am
by acemilo
I'm trying to force an fsck, and this used to work just fine, but recently I've run into the problem of locked files. As of now, I have over 900 files queued that it can't process because "the file is locked by another process". AFAIK nothing is using these files. Is there anyway I can force it to unlock the files?

Thanks!

Re: FSCK keeps hitting locked files

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 4:16 am
by lrevxl
Always do a search:

http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f ... her#p14058

Specifically look at the part about running an lsof on the files in question, because most likely something does actually have them open.