From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 14:06:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC131065672 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:06:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@rink.nu) Received: from mx1.rink.nu (gloom.rink.nu [213.34.49.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34FDA8FC19 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:06:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@rink.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8036D436; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:06:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rink.nu Received: from mx1.rink.nu ([213.34.49.2]) by localhost (gloom.rink.nu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OEU3Qa4OP3GX; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:06:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8A5C56D433; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:06:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:06:23 +0200 From: Rink Springer To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20080620140623.GC83165@rink.nu> References: <485BA3D2.3090108@bulinfo.net> <20080620132833.GB83165@rink.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Incorrect file size? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:06:26 -0000 On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:54:22PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Except that the file in question should be, judging by the filename, a > simple text file. I don't really see how a whitelist could grow to such > monstrous sizes :) Most likely it's a file system corruption - fsck > should be the first thing to try. The 'vscan' user leads me assume this is SpamAssassin - I've seen this behaviour at work, where our scripts were trying to backup a 1TB file (which actually was ~vscan/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist). The result was that the backup script died due to lack of disk space on the backup server (as we don't use compression). When I was investigating why the file could be so large it, it turned out the file was only a few hunderd 'real' MB's, so that is why I assume this person is having the same issue as we do. The file is a Berkeley DB file, by the way, so there's nothing textfile about it ;-) But still, when in doubt, fsck(8) is sure to aid you. -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win." - Fox Mulder