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Ivan Voras wrote: > Rink Springer wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:54:22PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> Except that the file in question should be, judging by the filename, a >>> simple text file. I don't really see how a whitelist could grow to such >>> monstrous sizes :) Most likely it's a file system corruption - fsck >>> should be the first thing to try. >> The 'vscan' user leads me assume this is SpamAssassin - I've seen this >> behaviour at work, where our scripts were trying to backup a 1TB file >> (which actually was ~vscan/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist). The result was >> that the backup script died due to lack of disk space on the backup >> server (as we don't use compression). Yes, it is SpamAssassin and I have the same problem with the backups. The Amanda complains with: xxxxxxxxxxx / lev 1 FAILED [dump larger than available tape space, 307256178 KB, skipping incremental] yyyyyyyyyyyy / lev 4 FAILED [dump larger than tape, 354005617 KB, skipping incremental] I don't think this is a file system corruption because there are no reasons for this. Also I have seen this on different machines. Any ideas how to fix this? >> >> When I was investigating why the file could be so large it, it turned >> out the file was only a few hunderd 'real' MB's, so that is why I assume >> this person is having the same issue as we do. The file is a Berkeley DB >> file, by the way, so there's nothing textfile about it ;-) > > I learn something every day :) > Didn't know BDB was smart enough to create sparse files. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFIX0kwxJBWvpalMpkRAjkaAKCbF7sylsDyI2umCAoneqBqAYCNqwCgnQjA 9FkgJiVhqNI2NGCAlWpqfbg= =PQZ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
