.fsck_snapshot file

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:58:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:27:00AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >I have a file .fsck_snapshot in /usr (of 7 GB ?!)
> >-r--------   1 root   wheel  7220781056 Aug 22 18:08 .fsck_snapshot
> 
> The '7GB' does not mean you'll free up 7GB of disk space by freeing
> it.  IIRC, it's actually the size of the filesystem.

In fact I got the space back but it came probably during a disk to disk copy
when I saved a disk that began to develop seek errors. 


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