Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:24:03 -0600 From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG> To: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file size different from ls to du Message-ID: <200307291524.h6TFO3J06998@revolt.poohsticks.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:19:07 %2B0200." <20030729171356.M2453-100000@fw.office.icom>
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In message <20030729171356.M2453-100000@fw.office.icom>, bgd@icomag.de writes: >(17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] ls -alsh my_file >19120 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bgd 763M Jul 29 16:56 my_file >(17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] du -sh my_file > 19M my_file > > So the 'ls -alsh' shows a file in size of 763M, but 19M of sectors are >really 'occupied'. Can someone explain, please? unix files can be sparse. -- <a href="http://www.poohsticks.org/drew/">Home Page</a> For those who do, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation is possible.
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