[afnog] FreeBSD filesystem question

[Paulo Machado]

Hi Godinho,

what was the utility you used for reported size (ls | du).

It looks like a sparse file problem
check
http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/sparse-files-what-why-and-how/
for more info about this subject

Regards

Paulo Machado
ICT Dept @ ISCTEM
Maputo
Mozambique

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Antonio Godinho <antonio at uem.mz> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have recently done a gzip of a 4GB file in FreeBSD 6.2 and the file was
> reduced to 400MB but this change does not reflect on the freespace for the
> partition. Is there something I can do for it to commit the change? It is a
> live system and I can not reboot it.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Antonio Godinho
> CIUEM
> Maputo
> Mozambique
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