Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:31:23
Message-Id: 20120309002929.36cd1bba@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge by Alan McKinnon
1 On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 22:01:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > > I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any
4 > > deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes:
5 > > "app-admin/checkrestart". I usually run it after world updates so I
6 > > can tell whether I need a restart or not.
7
8 > Why go to the effor tof emerging another package? Use what you already
9 > have:
10 >
11 > lsof | egrep '(deleted)$'
12
13 Unless you already have checkrestart installed for its intended use, it's
14 a lot better than grep for that.
15
16 I hadn't thought of using it for this, nice idea.
17
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19 --
20 Neil Bothwick
21
22 Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

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