On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:54:22PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 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.

The 'vscan' user leads me assume this is SpamAssassin - I've seen this
behaviour at work, where our scripts were trying to backup a 1TB file
(which actually was ~vscan/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist). The result was
that the backup script died due to lack of disk space on the backup
server (as we don't use compression).

When I was investigating why the file could be so large it, it turned
out the file was only a few hunderd 'real' MB's, so that is why I assume
this person is having the same issue as we do. The file is a Berkeley DB
file, by the way, so there's nothing textfile about it ;-)

But still, when in doubt, fsck(8) is sure to aid you.

-- 
Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
"Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't
 mean you win." - Fox Mulder
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