Hi Tanel,
Thanks much. Following the note “Retrieve deleted files on Unix / Linux using File Descriptors [ID 444749.1]” we did a:
head -100 /proc/16927/fd/44 > /tmp/file1
Basically we had wanted to upload to Support the first few lines of the huge file…but after a few mins, the space was back in the filesystem !
I thank you again for taking time to respond to the blog comment.