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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
