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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: .fsck_snapshot file
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
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> > I have a file .fsck_snapshot in /usr (of 7 GB ?!)
> > -r--------   1 root   wheel  7220781056 Aug 22 18:08 .fsck_snapshot
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> As long as it isn't mounted it should be safe to remove.

Er, rather, if *fsck* isn't running its safe to remove.

These usually get here if you have a crash during background fsck.

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