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Summary: -size checks filesize, not
blocks-used-in-filesystem.
Project: findutils
Submitted by: rewolff
Submitted on: Thu 25 Jun 2009 03:25:08 PM GMT
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.2.28
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
It is useful to search for files that take a lot of disk space. I happen to
have a lot of files that are 1Gbyte large, but occupy only their inode: they
are completely zero.
I have a cronjob that tries to compress such files. however, compressing
those files that only contain zeroes takes a lot of CPU time, and only
increases the disk usage.
The attached patch implements the -space predicate that checks (like -size)
the size-on-disk instead of the file length.
I'm a technical guy, so I built the patch, but haven't update the docs. Just
drop me a note if you are going to incorporate this and want me to write the
documentation.
The patch shortens the sourcecode by about 30 lines of code.
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Date: Thu 25 Jun 2009 03:25:08 PM GMT Name: space_patch.diff Size: 7kB
By: rewolff
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=18317>
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