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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