On 17/01/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Tks for that.  That caused a reduction in disk occupancy of a factor of
about 10x.  The ls -l still shows the same file sizes so they must be
sparse files.


Then run "ls -ls" to see the number of blocks the file actually occupies on
the disk to verify it's sparse, "du" will also tell you the truth.

--Amos
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