On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
| They should be sparse files - they do not take that much space on disk
| (basically the files have holes in them). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file
|
| Try using "ls -s" (shows blocks used) or "du -h *.pag" to see the real
| size.
Sparse files indeed - a machine here has one with file "length" 2.3GB
but only 17MB used in reality.
> ls -l wait-remote_smtp.pag
-rw-r----- 1 exim staff 2308278272 Nov 1 16:40 wait-remote_smtp.pag
> du -k wait-remote_smtp.pag
16904 wait-remote_smtp.pag
