ext3 journaling taking up HDD Space ?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 16.04.2004 schrieb Matthew Benjamin um 21:20:

> THAT'S IT!!! I found the problem it is not ext3 journaling it is the
> uvscan I setup. It found an test file in my system and thought it was a
> virus. The test file was on my ftp site 4.8G It renamed and moved the
> file to a quarantine location I setup. The problem however is it copied
> the whole directory. Oh well, thanks that really helped me isolate the
> problem. The only thing different I did was add an "h" to make it human
> readable. du -sch /* , du -sch /usr/*, ...  Until I found the directory
> with all the info. Thanks again you are VERY helpful.
> 
> mattB.

See

http://www.aerasec.de/security/advisories/decompression-bomb-vulnerability.html

Alexander


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