Getting back to Bennet's query I would also be interested in removing
or correcting an oddity like this one:
ls -la /"whatever"
-rw-r----- 1 root operator 137438928896 Aug 20 09:20 quota.user
It has the very awkward habit of confusing "rdist".
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Bennet Fauber wrote:
> I asked about deleting quota.[group|quota] files because I needed space.
>
> SUMMARY
>
> One doesn't. They are sparse files, and ls -l was very misleading.
>
> > -rw-r----- 1 root operator 1155072 Oct 8 1997 quota.group
> > -rw-r----- 1 root operator 2097152 May 5 1998 quota.user
>
> Using ls -s shows quota.group is 16K, and quota.user is 40K. This very
> example was, in fact, on the ls man page: Example 1 -- sorry.
>
> Thanks to
>
> Jerome M Berkman <jerry_at_uclink4.berkeley.edu>
> alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
> "Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
> Teron Jones <teron.jones_at_compaq.com>
>
> for participating in "be kind to rookies" day.
>
> -- Bennet
> <----- oOo ----->
> Bennet Fauber
> Social Science Data Service
> University of California, Davis
>
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