Rink Springer wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:34:26PM +0300, Krassimir Slavchev wrote: >> # ls -l >> total 1239702 >> - -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 4398199488512 Jun 20 15:18 auto-whitelist >> - -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 22 Jun 20 15:18 bayes.lock >> - -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 102168 Jun 20 15:18 bayes_journal >> - -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 1099639861248 Jun 20 15:18 bayes_seen >> - -rw------- 1 vscan vscan 21057536 Jun 20 15:18 bayes_toks >> >> but: >> # df -h >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >> /dev/ar0s1a 19G 3.9G 14G 22% / >> ... >> >> # du >> 1239758 . >> >> # mount >> /dev/ar0s1a on / (ufs, local) >> ... > > This is most likely due to the use of 'sparse files': sequential file > data that consists of only zeros doesn't need have actual storage > associated to it. This is quite normal in UNIX environments, and quite > harmless.
Except that the file in question should be, judging by the filename, a simple text file. I don't really see how a whitelist could grow to such monstrous sizes :) Most likely it's a file system corruption - fsck should be the first thing to try.
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