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From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Small file taking up lots of disk space
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In response to Small file taking up lots of disk space  ("Jason Williams" <jwilliams@wc-group.com>)
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:11:21PM -0500, Jason Williams wrote:
> Postgresql is still running while I'm looking at this file, but I
> don't think that would cause this.

Depends on the platform, but yes, it would.  The file may still be
open.  The raw size of the file is one thing, but the amount of disk
it uses is another.  For further discussion, see

<http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fwpaper/26928>

A

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