powertop creates temporary file in /tmp directory during calibration. Simply closing the file does not remove it. Using unlink(), instead of close() to remove temporary file. Signed-off-by: Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla <meraj.enigma(a)gmail.com&gt; --- src/calibrate/calibrate.cpp | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/calibrate/calibrate.cpp b/src/calibrate/calibrate.cpp index a9a0a7c..98abfe9 100644 --- a/src/calibrate/calibrate.cpp +++ b/src/calibrate/calibrate.cpp @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static void *burn_disk(void *dummy) printf("Error: %s\n", strerror(errno)); fdatasync(fd); } - close(fd); + unlink(filename); return NULL; } -- 1.9.1