On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Henning Daum wrote: > You should pay attention to the "du" output too, not only the "ls" file > size. On some systems at least a mechanism of the unix file system is used, > which allows "holes" in files, which are counted into the file size but > aren't really allocated. DMB is IMHO uses this. > > Extract from "man dbm" (Sparc Solaris 2.8): > "The .pag file will contain holes so that its apparent size > may be larger than its actual content. Older versions of the > UNIX operating system may create real file blocks for these > holes when touched. These files cannot be copied by normal > means ( cp(1), cat(1), tar(1), ar(1)) without filling in the > holes."
Interesting thought - but mine isn't a DBM ... $ ls -k -s auto-whitelist.db 29320 auto-whitelist.db $ du auto-whitelist.db 29320 auto-whitelist.db -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
