Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.

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From: Jonathan Stowe
Subject: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.
Date: 19:35 on 18 Dec 2006
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 19:38 +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
> >>... After some time it turned out that some log files exceeded 2G. When you
> >>remove a file *that* big on this filesystem (or this kernel, or
> >>something), the disk space is not reclaimed to an extent which would
> >>allow you to actually create new files using that space....
> > 
> > 
> > Did you sync after running the rm command?
> > 
> > 
> 
> No. I didn't sync. And I didn't trunc. I'm starting to feel guilty.

You're lucky they don't cap you with a tec-9 for dissing the obviously
perfect in all respects design of the Unix operating system.

/J\
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