On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:25:05PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > 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 ;-) > I learn something every day :) > Didn't know BDB was smart enough to create sparse files.
Even base system uses such files :-) $ ls -lsk /etc/pwd.db 140 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 159744 21 июн 12:26 /etc/pwd.db $ file /etc/pwd.db /etc/pwd.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) File occupies 140K = 143360 bytes and its length is 159744 bytes, so it has to be sparse. FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE. Eugene _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
