On Apr 04, 2007 10:57 -0700, edmond rodriguez wrote: > I am checking a file system (ext3) as shown below. It is actually a fresh file > system, as I had deleted all partitions and created an ext3 file system. But > when I run the check with the verbose option, it says I have one large file. > Am I missing something here, or is it odd that I cannot find this large file it > is reporting? I reviewed some documentation on ext3 file systems, and > experimented with different sizes and formats, but finally decided to post > (after reviewing archives). Is this "large file" just a private file used by > the file system itself, or maybe the journal? It is a large drive (500GB), so > maybe a large file got generated which normally might appear smaller on a > smaller drive. > > I tried ls -sal and other flags with ls looking for the large file. I also ran > dump2fs, although the output can be somewhat complex. "find /mount/point -size +2G -ls" Also, "debugfs -c -R stat <7>" - it might be the resize inode. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
