Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] .free shrunk by 1024 bytes, padding with zeros

2008-05-09 04:35:04
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] .free shrunk by 1024 bytes, padding with zeros
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 04:18:29 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 8 May 2008, dy018 wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> Anyone understand during status 1, we get this error message .free shrunk by 
> 1024 bytes, padding with zeros. What exactly cause this error? Does that file 
> size changes before and after the backup? hence flagging out tis error? Thanks
>
It means the file changed its size when it was backing it up and that,
(I believe) say you have a 10gb file and it shrinks to 1gb, it puts zeroes
for the remaining 9gigabytes so everything stays consistent.

Justin.

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