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Shaw, Marco
Marco.Shaw at aliant.ca
Fri Sep 23 16:16:58 UTC 2005
Hmmmm... Could be a swap file...
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-
swap-adding.html
Might use lsof and grep for those file names to see if anything is
writing to them
depending on the timestamps.
Marco
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> I've found several gigantic files in the users directory with the size
> of 2147483648. The name of the files are .swap1.img, .swap2.img, etc..
> My questions are:
>
> What are they?
>
> How did they get there?
>
> Can they be removed?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help. P.S I hope this is the
> correct url.
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