On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

| They should be sparse files - they do not take that much space on disk  
| (basically the files have holes in them).  See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file
| 
| Try using "ls -s" (shows blocks used) or "du -h *.pag" to see the real  
| size.

Sparse files indeed - a machine here has one with file "length" 2.3GB 
but only 17MB used in reality.

 > ls -l wait-remote_smtp.pag
 -rw-r-----   1 exim     staff    2308278272 Nov  1 16:40 wait-remote_smtp.pag

 > du -k wait-remote_smtp.pag
 16904   wait-remote_smtp.pag


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