Hi-- On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > I have the directory in the file system with 2 regular files each of which > is > sized as 700M according to 'ls -l'. But the torrent client and 'du -s' and > 'ls > -l's 'total' show that the directory size is 300M. > > How can that be? Are there different file sizes stored on a ufs1 in > their > metadata?
It's very likely that these are sparse files. Your torrent client creates a file of the appropriate size via fseek()/lseek() or similar, but the space isn't actually consumed until it writes the data it is obtaining from the network.... Random link: http://www.unixguide.net/unix/sparse_file.shtml Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
