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

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.
Date: 17:38 on 18 Dec 2006


>>... 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.

There's stuff above here

Robert Rothenberg 17:21 on 18 Dec 2006
- Yossi Kreinin 17:38 on 18 Dec 2006
  - Jonathan Stowe 19:35 on 18 Dec 2006
Jonathan Stowe 17:28 on 18 Dec 2006
- Martin Ebourne 17:39 on 18 Dec 2006
- Yossi Kreinin 17:42 on 18 Dec 2006
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 18:55 on 18 Dec 2006
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peter (Peter da Silva) 20:15 on 18 Dec 2006
peter (Peter da Silva) 21:13 on 18 Dec 2006
- A. Pagaltzis 01:43 on 19 Dec 2006
  - Yossi Kreinin 07:53 on 19 Dec 2006
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  - Medieval Shells dom (Dominic Mitchell) 11:55 on 19 Dec 2006
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  - Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking. Peter da Silva 12:56 on 19 Dec 2006
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