[Foresight-devel] Re: empty unused swapfile wasting space?

Ken VanDine ken at vandine.org
Sun Feb 3 15:27:23 EST 2008


I wonder if this is something anaconda is leaving around.  I have it
too... anyone know?

--Ken

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:43 +0100, Martin Bähr wrote:
> hi,
> 
> when analysing what takes all the diskspace in /var i stumbled over:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 134217728 Nov 10 13:45 swap
> # strings swap | less
> SWAPSPACE2
> #
> 
> the file is empty (a sparse copy reduced it to 1001 bytes) and never
> used. i installed fl:2 on this machine in december, so it came with the
> install.
> 
> greetings, martin.



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