Problem with history
Sebastian Wiesinger
inn at tracker.fire-world.de
Thu Dec 8 11:22:48 UTC 2005
* Andy Hawkins <a.hawkins at cabletime.com> [2005-12-08 12:15]:
> After this, I end up with the following history files:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 Dec 8 10:04 history
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 43 Dec 8 10:04 history.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 60000000 Dec 8 10:04 history.hash
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 40000000 Dec 8 10:04 history.index
>
> However, if I do a 'du' on the files, I get:
>
> gently:/var/lib/news# du -h history*
> 0 history
> 1.0K history.dir
> 0 history.hash
> 0 history.index
>
Try this invocation of du:
du -h --apparent-size history*
The files may be empty sparse files.
Regards,
Sebastian
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