Re: [Exim] question on DB file sizes

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Jetmore
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] question on DB file sizes
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, John Jetmore wrote:

> -rw-------    1 root     root          499 Mar 18 10:37 db.auth-users
> -rw-------    1 root     bin         24576 Mar 18 10:41 db.auth-users.db
> -rw-------    1 root     root        12288 Mar 18 10:41 db.auth-users.db-20752


> Any idea what's going on here?


If those sizes were the other way round (i.e. the copied one bigger), I
would say "files with holes". Maybe that's still the explanation. How
did you copy? Have you tried comparing with "ls -s"?

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