Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:19:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de> To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: file size different from ls to du Message-ID: <20030729171356.M2453-100000@fw.office.icom>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi everyone, I have sort of a newbie question, but that I cannot explain myself. I get some large files in 'ls -al', but when I 'measure' them with 'du', the size is much small. Example: (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? Thanks, bogdan
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030729171356.M2453-100000>