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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by kaminar on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:54PM (#26587201)
Create empty disk partition not possible? Seems easier to manage, no?
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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by herewulf on Friday March 26, 2021 @02:07AM (#26589208)
I always leave some unallocated space in LVM in my machines. However, in a cloud environment it's probably easier or only possible to delete that 8 GB file.
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