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Date:      Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:35:56 +0200
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: .fsck_snapshot file
Message-ID:  <20030902103556.GA29655@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030902085804.GB89347@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <200309020627.h826R0M26088@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20030902085804.GB89347@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:58:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:27:00AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >I have a file .fsck_snapshot in /usr (of 7 GB ?!)
> >-r--------   1 root   wheel  7220781056 Aug 22 18:08 .fsck_snapshot
> 
> The '7GB' does not mean you'll free up 7GB of disk space by freeing
> it.  IIRC, it's actually the size of the filesystem.

In fact I got the space back but it came probably during a disk to disk copy
when I saved a disk that began to develop seek errors. 


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de



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