gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/04/85)
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! ///|\\\ 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...? \ \_/ / \___/