10 minutes? That's it. That's easily a 3 hour time sink.
Well, in this case, it was a graphical program that was doing it, and I really could've recognized that the file was being created by that. I had just kind of forgotten that I opened this graphical program a few days ago on a different workspace...
OP is clearly boasting about how smart they are.
Only 10 minutes? Those are rookie numbers
Or pro numbers, depending on how you look at it.
lsof is a good tool would recommend it whenever something weird is happen, tho you gotta be root for it
Another is checking modified time of the directory
I'm curious you'd see it in ls -l Did inode change? I remember making the same mistake. I think everyone sees this sometime during the career
The inode does change, yeah:
The regular
ls -ldoesn't show the inode on my system, though. I only realized it when I had assigned more permissions to the file and those got reset by deleting the file. The last-modified timestamp also gets updated each time, but I only spotted that afterwards...
It's usually 10 mins to debug, and 3 hours explaining, categorizing, identifying the scope of it exists everywhere else...
Kinda similar. I remember having a file I could t delete. But I could move it to a new folder and delete that folder and the file would delete.
