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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: <3484@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 91 17:44:54 GMT
References: <124@comix.UUCP> <1991Jun25.064730.11188@cichlid.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Jun25.064730.11188@cichlid.com> aab@cichlid.com (Andy Burgess) writes:

| I don't think you have anything to fix. Well maybe a bug in the application
| that created the file.  Don't know about the fsck message though...

The message comes out for all sparse files. Many coredumps are sparse.
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