Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 10:47:45 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: xiyuan qian <xiyuan@dns.hgs.com.cn> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why the file size becomes so large? Message-ID: <19990516104742.A74673@titan.klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199905040905.RAA16153@dns.hgs.com.cn>; from xiyuan qian on Tue, May 04, 1999 at 05:05:57PM %2B0800 References: <199905040905.RAA16153@dns.hgs.com.cn>
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On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 05:05:57PM +0800, xiyuan qian wrote: > > Hi, today I suddenly noticed that a file locates at /usr/local/program/data dir > its size becomes 11235678909 large. Why? This file is wrote by a running prog. > What's the reason? lsof from the ports collection can be used to determine, which process opened the file just in case you don't know which application is causing this. And the question why the file size becomes so large sounds a little bit silly to me. Perhaps the application simply writes so much data ?! Or you started the application with extra verbosity, just in case it is a logfile. Or you enabled debugging ... Hell ... you tell so few things about the surroundings, content of the file ... go figure yourself ... -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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