From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 13:28:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03358 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:28:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03272 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #3) id 0zSnhb-0007ds-00; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:32:19 +0100 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:32:19 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Roman Katsnelson Cc: "q's" Subject: Re: v: huge random file, why? Message-ID: <19981012203219.A29346@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3621FDAE.AAA2BAA1@graphnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3621FDAE.AAA2BAA1@graphnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.11i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roman Katsnelson wrote: > The contents of the file looked like compiled code, but it wasn't > executable. What did `file v' report, out of interest? That may tell you what it was ... > And also, just as a side note, how can a file system take up more than > 100% of what it's alotted? df (maybe other programs) reports what users can use, I beleive. root can use slightly more than this[1], so root can still do stuff if normal users fill the disk up. As for what is was/why it was there, I have no idea :-( -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message