Filesystem and bigger files

[Andrew Snow]

Antonio Tommasi wrote:
> Filesystem       Size    Used   Avail    Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/aacd0s1a  64G    15G     44G         26%    /
> In a directory (spamassassin) i've one file (auto-whitelist) with 
> dimension 4.0 TB and one file (bayes_learn) with dimension 1.0TB
> 
> How is it possible? How this file are managed?


Spamassassin uses sparse files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file

Try running "du" on the files instead of "ls -l".


- Andrew