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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2025.1

# Show information about locked files

You can use the `-L` option of the `p4 monitor` to show information about locked files. The information is collected only for the duration of the `p4 monitor` command and is not persisted. See the description of the `p4 monitor` command for more information about how to set up this kind of monitoring.

The following sample output to the `p4 monitor show -L` command, shows the information displayed about locked files:

    8764 R user 00:00:00 edit
          [server.locks/clients/88,d/ws4(W),db.locks(R),db.rev(R)]
    8766 R user 00:00:00 edit
          [server.locks/clients/89,d/ws5(W),db.locks(R),db.rev(R)]
    8768 R user 00:00:00 monitor

Following pid, status, owner, and time information, output shows two edit commands that have various files locked, including the client workspace lock in exclusive mode for the workspaces `ws4` and `ws5`, and `db.locks` and `db.rev` tables in read-only mode.

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