seth@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Seth Teller) (01/25/91)
>had to have appeared in mid-remove. > I looked in the directory and saw ".nfsE5E79". > > I don't like this much. Anyone seen this before? >Loki Jorgenson / / \ \ node: loki@Physics.McGill.CA it's nfs 'marking' your directory (obvious analogy to dogs and fire hydrants left partially to your imagination). at berkeley we cross- mount sgi and bsd file systems, so who knows whose nfs is at fault. but apparently these things can hang around for quite a while; here's ~550k of such cruft i found today, more than six months old: % find . -local -name '.nfs*' -exec /bin/ls \-l {} \; -rw-r--r-- 1 seth user 295812 Jul 5 1990 ./inigo2/seth/fontstuff/.nfsD21141 -rw-r--r-- 1 seth user 245760 Jul 15 1990 ./inigo2/seth/sethtools/.nfs596EF for those who want to nuke all such .nfs* files: % su % cd / % find . -atime +1 -local -name '.nfs*' -exec /bin/rm \-f {} \; the -atime +1 is to leave alone those files younger than one day, in case nfs really needs them for something timely. seth