Question: How Do I Find out What Process Is Using a File System Linux?
Contents How Do You Check Proc? Now Check the Highlighted Process with Pid=7494, You Can Check That There Is Entry for This Process in /Proc File System...
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How do you check proc?
Now check the highlighted process with PID=7494, you can check that there is entry for this process in /proc file system.
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| directory | description |
|---|---|
| /proc/PID/stat | Process status. |
| /proc/PID/statm | Process memory status information. |
| /proc/PID/status | Process status in human readable form. |
How do you find which process is creating a file in Unix?
5 Answers. The lsof command (already mentioned in several answers) will tell you what process has a file open at the time you run it. lsof is available for just about every unix variant.
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