Disappearing disk space :-)

[John Gilmore]

In article <144 at maynard.UUCP>, campbell at 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!
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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...?					 	      \ \_/ /
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