Hello Edmund, Sparse files. OK. Then the next question, how can I store a 26G file in a machine that isn't that large? And to add to this, why does the filesystem backup really dump 26G into our TSM server?
So it looks like the data is going somewhere. Berry. Op 21-07-10 15:41, Edmund R. MacKenty schreef: > > Because they are sparse files. Linux only allocates blocks for a file that > have actually been written, so if a process creates a file and seeks a couple > of gigabytes into it before the first write, the file size is reported as > over 2GB, but it really only uses the blocks actually written after that > point. Use du(1) to report the actual space used by those files. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
