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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
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Subject: Re: holes in files
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Date: 20 Dec 90 04:14:16 GMT
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In <18119:Dec1809:38:3990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

     What do you propose I do if the disk has just a bit more memory
     than I need? df works nicely only if the system does not, in fact,
     run out of space, and then I might as well not bother checking.

Hmmm...I suppose you could buy a new disk, or delete some old files.
That's what *I* do when I am about to run out of disk space.

I often use tar or cpio to move directory hierarchies around, so it
wouldn't do to expect that holes in files will be preserved.  The
occasional ndbm database...will just have to be rebuilt.  The
occasional core dump with holes I just get rid of.

Let's take this to email.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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