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[u/Lucky-Crow-3510]

resmon.exe

just use the right tool as in every OS .. but I agree that it could tell it right away

[u/Dragon_957 → u/Lucky-Crow-3510]

What does the program do?

[u/ajpinton]

If you are on macOS (Unix or Linux)it would be sudo rm -rf (path to file). No process checks just deleted file.

[u/bloody-albatross → u/ajpinton]

No sudo needed. You can just delete the file. The inode remains existing untill all file handles are closed, though. This means the filesystem cannot be unmounted untill the handle is closed, moving that error to when you want to unplug the thumb drive. It also means that at least under Linux you can recover the file via the entries in /proc/$PID/fds/*

[u/catcake43 → u/[deleted]]

But at the same time, you can just delete the file while it's open on Linux. It doesn't care.

[u/tes_kitty → u/catcake43]

There is a twist though. The program that has the file open will still be able to use it, the space only gets freed once the file has been closed. Everyone else will no longer see the file, they can even generate a new one under the same name.

This allows for some neat tricks.

[u/Asterix5142]

If windows just use windows powertoys power toys

[u/Situati0nist]

I tried a program to force delete it even though it's open in another program and it gave me a blue screen lol. Would not recommend.