How to kill/close log files that are open through lsof grep deleted?

Question

I have a deleted a large log file from our servers. so I executed this command to validate.

lsof -nP | grep '(deleted)'

and this showed up.

how can I permanently delete the results fo this lsof? I need to recliam the needed space on our hardrive

Solution 1

looks like pid 20583 is keeping open the file. So search for it

ps aux | grep 20583

See what process is holding it open and restart the process or kill it.

Solution 2

If this is not a production system, just restart/kill postgres.

I'll check later for your answer, because there's a way to empty these files if you can't restart the application right now and you REALLY need the disk space urgently, but I wouldn't recommend it from the start.

Comments

[Gmck]

Have you tired restarting postgres?

[KyelJmD]

@gmck I tried executing sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql stop but the file still persists/results still persists