I've just checked, and there is a file mvs38j.tar.gz, and it clocks in at 
407.2 MB, but the mvs38j directory clocks in at 419.2 MB.

So much for gzip's compression ratio -  I am deeply disappointed.

Wesley Parish

On Monday 17 February 2003 09:51 pm, you wrote:
> ummmm...am I missing something or could there be quite a bit in
> /herc370/?
>
> Ie not in either subdir?
>
> On Mon,
> 17 Feb 2003 11:22:03+1300 Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > My system's Mandrake-Linux 9.0.
> >
> > My files systems are /boot = xfs, / and /usr = reiserfs, and /var and
> > /home are ext3.
> >
> > Recently I was brought up short by its claim it had no more space.
> >
> > I investigated and found for example, /herc370 claimed, when queried
> > by the properties option of the kde menu, that it had 1.7 GB stored.
> > its two subdirectories, /herc370/mvs38j and /herc370/vm claimed to
> > have 873.3 MB and 425.5 MB respectively, the two adding up to 1.3 GB
> > stored.
> >
> > So where and how have all the missing megabytage gone to?  I can't
> > figure it all out.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Wesley Parish
> >
> > --
> > Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
> > You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
> > Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
> > I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

-- 
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

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