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

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From: =?iso-8859-1?b?U+liYXN0aWVu?= Aperghis-Tramoni
Subject: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.
Date: 16:11 on 18 Dec 2006

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. It is only reclaimed to an
> extent allowing you to get it back after a fsck run. Which costs a sysadmin
> intervention and some down time while the disk is mounted read-only.
>
> Want to clean up your disk? Look for small files, the ones you can remove.

But did you trunc the file before removing it?

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- Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking. Yossi Kreinin 16:01 on 18 Dec 2006
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