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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: 1Gbyte file on a 130Mb drive (fsdb)
Keywords: big file fsdb
Message-ID: <3483@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 91 17:41:57 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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There's nothing wrong with your file. It's a sparse file, with a random
write done at offset 1GB. You can back it up with dump. You can delete
it with rm. You can muck up your files beyond any recovery with fsdb.

Repeat: there's nothing wrong, yet.
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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
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