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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Disappearing disk space :-)
Message-ID: <63@l5.uucp>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 20:20:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5.63
Posted: Tue Sep  3 20:20:38 1985
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References: <144@maynard.UUCP>
Organization: Ell-Five [Consultants], San Francisco
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In article <144@maynard.UUCP>, campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
> Well, it just happened again...  8,000 blocks just *zap* disappeared
> without a trace.  This time I discovered that deleting my news history
> file (which claimed to be only about 32K bytes long) freed up the
> space!
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Maybe Venix misinterpreted the description of "holes" in files.  A    / o - \
"hole" is a set of physical disk blocks which do not occur anywhere  ( _ v _ )
in the logical file...?					 	      \ \_/ /
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