From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 4 20:39:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E59106566B for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 20:39:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@modulus.org) Received: from email.octopus.com.au (email.octopus.com.au [122.100.2.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 708CC8FC21 for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 20:39:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@modulus.org) Received: by email.octopus.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5AE4317E54; Tue, 5 May 2009 06:39:53 +1000 (EST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on email.octopus.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.2.3 Received: from [10.1.50.60] (ppp121-44-33-156.lns10.syd7.internode.on.net [121.44.33.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: admin@email.octopus.com.au) by email.octopus.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A7E17E45; Tue, 5 May 2009 06:39:48 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <49FF5267.6090005@modulus.org> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 06:39:03 +1000 From: Andrew Snow User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080523) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antonio Tommasi , "freebsd-net >> FreeBSD Net" References: <49FA2E3F.9050108@entel.upc.edu> <3a142e750905010655i5e56282eu240e13f2a03dfb02@mail.gmail.com> <49FB55A3.605@entel.upc.edu> <3a142e750905011716g39ea55f0kd081bfdd55709b37@mail.gmail.com> <49FBF9B5.40800@entel.upc.edu> <3a142e750905020617y40f62463ma91b46a015b2b2ab@mail.gmail.com> <49FD61DD.7070903@entel.upc.edu> <3a142e750905030535v4cfe0103r1d8a17e828f6da9b@mail.gmail.com> <57348.147.83.40.234.1241416909.squirrel@webmail.entel.upc.edu> <49FEC893.8030305@unile.it> In-Reply-To: <49FEC893.8030305@unile.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Filesystem and bigger files X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 20:39:37 -0000 Antonio Tommasi wrote: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/aacd0s1a 64G 15G 44G 26% / > In a directory (spamassassin) i've one file (auto-whitelist) with > dimension 4.0 TB and one file (bayes_learn) with dimension 1.0TB > > How is it possible? How this file are managed? Spamassassin uses sparse files. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file Try running "du" on the files instead of "ls -l". - Andrew