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Benoît
Asked: 2011-02-17 04:54:14 +0800 CST

What are .nfs* on NFS mounts?

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on my NFS mounts, there are thousands of .nfs* files. What are they ?

Are they the files left behind by stale NFS handle ?

Thanks

445074   20 -rw-rw-rw-   1 19654    5000        19864 Feb 10 11:16 ./.nfs000000000006ca9200000004
445075    4 -rw-rw-rw-   1 19654    5000         1253 Feb  8 12:38 ./.nfs000000000006ca9300000005
188056    4 -rw-rw-rw-   1 19654    5000         1254 Feb 14 13:44 ./.nfs000000000002de9800000007
645729 6556 -rw-rw-rw-   1 19654    5000      6693189 Feb 14 16:52 ./.nfs000000000009da6100000008
188058    4 -rw-rw-rw-   1 19654    5000         1254 Feb 14 13:45 ./.nfs000000000002de9a00000009
188055   68 -rw-rw-rw-   1 19654    5000        64114 Feb 14 16:42 ./.nfs000000000002de970000000a
645730    4 -rw-rw-rw-   1 19654    5000         2872 Feb 14 16:12 ./.nfs000000000009da620000000b
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    They're usually renamed and locked files that were deleted/tried-to-delete when they were open.

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