Stephan van Hienen wrote: > >>You can also 'recover' the lost space by running (as root on the server): >> >> /usr/sbin/xfs_fsr 10Gtest > > > doesn't help : > > ]# xfs_fsr 10Gtest > ]# du -hs > 17G . ... it worked for me :-) Interestingly, I did a similar 'dd' locally on a XFS file system (CentOS 6.2) and got an allocation size of 16Gb for a 10Gb file - may be it's a bug/feature of the XFS versions used? I guess you might get a better response from the XFS mail list - see <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/> ??? James Pearson _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos