I found the infamous 20 Gb sparse file!!! :-), you were right guys!, now I'll follow jlliagre's advice on using ufsdump/ufsrestore to do this job... I'll try:
and see how it goes...
Thank you to everyone for your time and help!!!
PS: I used
to see the file size (it showed 20 Gb) and
to see the real/actual size it is consuming (it showed 96 Kb).
Last edited by dragonov7; 09-27-2010 at 06:50 PM..
Reason: Added the PS to show others how I found the sparse file
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